Love
Song from “Ben Hur”
From An American Anthology (1900)
Love
Wake not, but hear me, love!
Adrift, adrift on slumber’s sea,
Thy spirit call to list to me.
Wake not, but hear me, love!
A gift from Sleep, the restful king,
All happy, happy dreams I bring.
Wake not, but hear me, love!
Of all the world of dreams ’tis thine
This once to choose the most divine.
So choose, and sleep, my love!
But ne’er again in choice be free,
Unless, unless—thou dream’st of me.
Cite this poem
MLA
Wallace, Lew. “Song from “Ben Hur”.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wallace_l/0/.
Chicago
Wallace, Lew. “Song from “Ben Hur”.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wallace_l/0/.