Sleep-Book / Some of the Poetry of Slumber
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Title: Sleep-Book

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SLEEP-BOOK

SOME OF THE POETRY OF SLUMBER

COLLECTED BY

LEOLYN LOUISE EVERETT

NEW YORK

THE WATKINS COMPANY

1910

Three hundred and twenty copies of this book have been printed on hand-made Van Gelder paper, for The Watkins Company, at the press of Styles & Cash New York, and type distributed.

This book is No.

To

ETHEL DU FRÉ HOUSTON
who has brought the joy and beauty of dream
into so many lives

I.

Peace, peace, thou over-anxious, foolish heart,

Rest, ever-seeking soul, calm, mad desires,

Quiet, wild dreams—this is the time of sleep.

Hold her more close than life itself. Forget

All the excitements of the day, forget

All problems and discomforts. Let the night

Take you unto herself, her blessed self.

Peace, peace, thou over-anxious, foolish heart,

Rest, ever-seeking soul, calm, mad desires,

Quiet, wild dreams—this is the time of sleep.

Leolyn Louise Everett.

II.

Sleep, softly-breathing god! his downy wing

Was fluttering now.

Samuel T. Coleridge.

I lay in slumber's shadowy vale

Samuel T. Coleridge.

III.

And more to lulle him in his slumber soft,

A trickling stream from high rock tumbling down

And ever-drizzling raine upon the loft,

Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sowne

Of swarming Bees, did cast him in a swowne.

No other noyse, nor peoples troublous cryes,

As still are wont t'annoy the walled towne,

Might there be heard; but carelesse Quiet lyes

Wrapt in eternal! silence farre from enimyes.

Edmund Spenser.

IV.

The waters murmuring,

With such cohort as they keep

Entice the dewy-feathered Sleep.

Il Penseroso.

John Milton.

V.

Ye spotted snakes with double tongue,

Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen;

Newts and blind-worms do no wrong,

Come not near our fairy queen.

Philomel, with melody

Sing in our sweet lullaby,

Lulla, lulla, lullaby, lulla, lulla, lullaby;

Never harm.

Nor spell nor charm,

Come our lovely lady nigh

So goodnight with lullaby.

William Shakespeare.

VI.

Sleep, Silence child, sweet father of soft rest,

Prince, whose approach peace to all mortals brings,

Indifferent host to shepherds and to kings,

Sole comforter of minds with grief oppressed;

Lo, by thy charming rod all breathing things

Lie slumbering, with forgetfulness possessed.

William Drummond of Hawthornden.

VII.

Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving

Lock me in delight awhile;

Let some pleasing dreams beguile

All my fancies; that from thence

I may feel an influence,

All my powers of care bereaving!

Though but a shadow, but a sliding

Let me know some little joy!

We that suffer long annoy

Are contented with a thought

Through an idle fancy wrought;

O let my joys have some abiding!

John Fletcher.

VIII.

But still let Silence trew night-watches keepe,

That sacred Peace may in assurance rayne,

And tymely Sleep, when it is time to sleep,

May pour his limbs forth on your pleasant playne;

The whiles an hundred little winged loves

Like divers-fethered doves,

Shall fly and flutter round about your bed.

Edmund Spenser.

IX.

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes,

Brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose

On this afflicted prince; fall like a cloud

In gentle showers; give nothing that is loud

Or painful to his slumbers,—easy, sweet

And as a purling stream, thou son of Night,

Pass by his troubled senses; sing his pain

Like hollow murmuring wind or silver rain,

Into this prince gently, oh gently, slide

And kiss him into slumbers like a bride.

John Fletcher.

X.

God hath set

Labor and rest, as day and night, to men

Successive, and the timely dew of sleep

Now falling with soft, slumberous weight inclines

Our eyelids.

John Milton.

XI.

Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast'

Would I were sleep and peace so sweet to rest

William Shakespeare.

The innocent sleep,

Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, t

The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath,

Balm of hurt minds, great Nature's second course,

Chief nourisher in life's feast.

William Shakespeare.

XII.

Come, Sleep. O, Sleep! The certain knot of peace,

The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,

The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release,

The indifferent judge between the high and low.

Sir Philip Sidney.

XIII.

Close thine eyes, and sleep secure;

Thy soul is safe, thy body sure.

He that guards thee, he that keeps,

Never slumbers, never sleeps.

A quiet conscience in the breast

Has only peace, has only rest.

The wisest and the mirth of kings

Are out of tune unless she sings:

Then close thine eyes in peace and sleep secure,

No sleep so sweet as thine, no rest so sure.

Charles I, King of England.

XIV.

Oh, Brahma, guard in sleep

The merry lambs and the complacent kine,

The flies below the leaves and the young mice

In the tree roots, and all the sacred flocks

Of red flamingo; and my love Vijaya,

And may no restless fay, with fidget finger

Trouble his sleeping; give him dreams of me.

William B Yeats.

XV.

Solemnly, mournfully,

Dealing its dole,

The Curfew Bell

Is beginning to toll.

Cover the embers,

And put out the light;

Toil comes with morning,

And rest with the night.

Dark grow the windows,

And quenched is the fire;

Sound fades into silence,—

All footsteps retire.

No voice in the chambers,

No sound in the hall!

Sleep and oblivion

Reign over all!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

XVI.

Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful sound

Seems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught;

Seal up the hundred wakeful eyes of thought

As Hermes with his lyre in sleep profound

The hundred wakeful eyes of Argus bound

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

XVII.

Our life is twofold: Sleep hath its own world,

A boundary between the things mis-named

Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,

And a wide realm of wild reality.

And dreams in their development have breath,

And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;

They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts,

They take a weight from off our waking toils.

They do divide our being; they become

A portion of ourselves as of our time,

And look like heralds of eternity;—

Lord Byron.

XVIII.

O gentle Sleep! Do they belong to thee,

These twinklings of oblivion? Thou dost love

To sit in meekness, like the brooding Dove,

A captive never wishing to be free.

William Wordsworth.

XIX.

O soft embalmer of the still midnight!

Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,

Our gloom-pleased eyes, embowered from the light,

Enshaded in forgetfulness divine;

O soothest Sleep! if so it pleases thee, close,

In midst of this thine hymn, my willing eyes,

Or wait the amen, ere thy poppy throws

Around my bed its lulling charities;

Then save me, or the passed day will shine

Upon my pillow, breeding many woes;

Save me from curious conscience, that still lords

Its strength for darkness, burrowing like a mole;

Turn the key deftly in the oiled wards,

And seal the hushed casket of my soul.

John Keats.

XX.

Sleep, that giv'st what Life denies,

Shadowy bounties and supreme,

Bring the dearest face that flies

Following darkness like a dream!

Andrew Lang.

XXI.

I have a lady as dear to me

As the westward wind and shining sea,

As breath of spring to the verdant lea,

As lover's songs and young children's glee.

Swiftly I pace thro' the hours of light,

Finding no joy in the sunshine bright,

Waiting 'till moon and far stars are white,

Awaiting the hours of silent night.

Swiftly I fly from the day's alarms,

Too sudden desires, false joys and harms,

Swiftly I fly to my loved one's charms,

Praying the clasp of her perfect arms.

Her eyes are wonderful, dark and deep,

Her raven tresses a midnight steep,

But, ah, she is hard to hold and keep—

My lovely lady, my lady Sleep!

Leolyn Louise Everett.

XXII.

Visit her, gentle Sleep! With wings of healing,

And may this storm be but a mountain-birth,

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling,

Silent as tho' they watched the sleeping Earth!

With light heart may she rise,

Gay fancy, cheerful eyes,

Joy lift her spirit, joy attune her voice.

Samuel T. Coleridge.

XXIII.

Sleep! king of gods and men!

Come to my call again,

Swift over field and fen,

Mountain and deep:

Come, bid the waves be still;

Sleep, streams on height and hill;

Beasts, birds and snakes, thy will

Conquereth, Sleep!

Come on thy golden wings,

Come ere the swallow sings,

Lulling all living things,

Fly they or creep!

Come with thy leaden wand,

Come with thy kindly hand,

Soothing on sea or land

Mortals that weep

Come from the cloudy west,

Soft over brain and breast,

Bidding the Dragon rest,

Come to me, Sleep!

Andrew Lang.

XXIV.

Sleep, death without dying—living without life.

Edwin Arnold.

XXV.

She sleeps; her breathings are not heard

In palace-chambers far apart,

The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd

That he upon her charmed heart.

She sleeps; on either hand upswells

The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest;

She sleeps, nor dreams but ever dwells

A perfect form in perfect rest.

Alfred Tennyson.

XXVI.

The hours are passing slow,

I hear their weary tread

Clang from the tower and go

Back to their kinsfolk dead.

Sleep! death's twin brother dread!

Why dost thou scorn me so?

The wind's voice overhead

Long wakeful here I know,

And music from the steep

Where waters fall and flow.

Wilt thou not hear me, Sleep?

All sounds that might bestow

Rest on the fever'd bed,

All slumb'rous sounds and low

Are mingled here and wed,

And bring no drowsihed.

Shy dreams flit to and fro

With shadowy hair dispread;

With wistful eyes that glow

And silent robes that sweep.

Thou wilt not hear me; no?

Wilt thou not hear me, Sleep?

What cause hast them to show

Of sacrifice unsped?

Of all thy slaves below

I most have labored

With service sung and said;

Have cull'd such buds as blow,

Soft poppies white and red,

Where thy still gardens grow,

And Lethe's waters weep.

Why, then, art thou my foe?

Wilt thou not hear me, Sleep?

Prince, ere the dark be shred

By golden shafts, ere low

And long the shadows creep:

Lord of the wand of lead,

Soft footed as the snow,

Wilt thou not hear me, Sleep!

Andrew Lang.

XXVII.

I have loved wind and light,

And the bright sea,

But, holy and most secret Night,

Not as I love and have loved thee.

God, like all highest things,

Hides light in shade,

And in the night his visitings

To sleep and dreams are clearliest made.

Arthur Symons.

XXVIII.

The peace of a wandering sky,

Silence, only the cry

Of the crickets, suddenly still,

A bee on the window sill,

A bird's wing, rushing and soft,

Three flails that tramp in the loft,

Summer murmuring

Some sweet, slumberous thing,

Half asleep:

Arthur Symons.

XXIX.

Only a little holiday of sleep,

Soft sleep, sweet sleep; a little soothing psalm

Of slumber from thy sanctuaries of calm,

A little sleep—it matters not how deep;

A little falling feather from thy wing,

Merciful Lord,—is it so great a thing?

Richard Le Gallienne.

XXX.

A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by

One after one; the sound of rain, and bees

Murmuring; the fall of rivers, winds and seas,

Smooth fields, white sheets of water and pure sky

I have thought of all by turns and yet do lie

Sleepless!

Come, blessed barrier between day and day.

Dear mother of fresh thoughts and joyous health!

William Wordsworth.

XXXI.

Sleep is a reconciling,

A rest that peace begets;

Does not the sun rise smiling

When fair at eve he sets'

Anonymous.

XXXII.

The cloud-shadows of midnight possess their own

repose,

The weary winds are silent or the moon is in the

deep;

Some respite to its turbulence unresting ocean

knows;

Whatever moves, or toils, or grieves, hath its

appointed sleep.

Percy Bysshe Shelley.

XXXIII.

We lay

Stretched upon fragrant heath and lulled by sound

Of far-off torrents charming the still night,

To tired limbs and over-busy thoughts

Inviting sleep and soft forgetfulness.

William Wordsworth.

XXXIV.

There is sweet music here that softer falls

Than petals from blown roses on the grass,

Or night-dews on still waters between walls

Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass;

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies

Than tired eye-lids upon tired eyes;

Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies.

Here are cool mosses deep,

And thro' the mass the ivies creep,

And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep.

And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep.

Alfred Tennyson.

XXXV.

I went into the deserts of dim sleep—

That world which, like an unknown wilderness,

Bounds this with its recesses wide and deep

Percy Bysshe Shelley.

XXXVI.

Oh, Morpheus, my more than love, my life,

Come back to me, come back to me! Hold out

Your wonderful, wide arms and gather me

Again against your breast. I lay above

Your heart and felt its breathing firm and slow

As waters that obey the moon and lo,

Rest infinite was mine and calm. My soul

Is sick for want of you. Oh, Morpheus,

Heart of my weary heart, come back to me!

Leolyn Louise Everett.

XXXVII.

Lips

Parted in slumber, whence the regular breath

Of innocent dreams arose.

Percy Bysshe Shelley.

XXXVIII.

A late lark twitters in the quiet skies;

And from the west,

Where the sun, his day's work ended,

Lingers in content,

There falls on the old, gray city

An influence luminous and serene,

A shining peace.

The smoke ascends

In a rosy-and-golden haze. The spires

Shine, and are changed. In the valley

Shadows rise. The lark sings on. The sun,

Closing his benediction,

Sinks, and the darkening air

Thrills with a sense of the triumphing night—

Night with her train of stars

And her great gift of sleep.

William Ernest Henley.

XXXIX.

Oh, Sleep! it is a gentle thing

Beloved from pole to pole!

To Mary Queen the praise be given!

She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,

That slid into my soul.

Samuel T. Coleridge.

XL.

What is more gentle than a wind in summer?

What is more soothing than the pretty hummer

That stays one moment in an open flower,

And buzzes cheerily from bower to bower?

What is more tranquil than a musk rose blowing

In a green island, far from all men's knowing?

More healthful than the leanness of dales?

More secret than a nest of nightingales?

More serene than Cordelia's countenance?

More full of visions than a high romance?

What, but thee Sleep? Soft closer of our eyes!

Low murmurer of tender lullabies!

Light hoverer around our happy pillows!

Wreather of poppy buds and weeping willows!

Silent entangler of a beauty's tresses!

Most happy listener! when the morning blesses

Thee for enlivening all the cheerful eyes

That glance so brightly at the new sun-rise.

John Keats.

XLI.

My sleep had been embroidered with dim dreams,

My soul had been a lawn besprinkled o'er

With flowers, and stirring shades of baffled beams.

John Keats.

XLII.

Sleep is a blessed thing. All my long life

I have known this, its value infinite

To man, its symbol of the perfect peace

That marks eternity, its marvellous

Relief from all the vanities and wounds,

The little battles and unrest of soul

That we call life.

Sleep is a blessed thing,

Doubly it has been taught me. All the time

I cannot have you, all the heart-sick days

Of utter yearning, of eternal ache

Of longing, longing for the sight of you,

Fade and dissolve at night and you are mine,

At least in dreams, at least in blessed dreams.

Leolyn Louise Everett.

XLIII.

Soon, trembling in her soft and chilly nest,

In sort of wakeful swoon, perplex'd she lay

Until the poppied warmth of sleep oppress'd

Her soothed limbs, and soul fatigued away;

Flown, like a thought, until the morrow-day,

Blissfully haven'd both from joy and pain,

Clasp'd like a missal where swart Paynims pray;

Blended alike from sunshine and from rain,

As though a rose could shut and be a bud again.

John Keats.

XLIV.

O magic sleep! O comfortable bird,

That broodest o'er the troubled sea of the mind

'Till it is hush'd and smooth! O unconfin'd

Restraint! imprisoned liberty! great key

To golden palaces, strange ministrelsy,

Fountains grotesque, new trees, bespangled caves,

Echoing grottos, full of tumbling waves

And moonlight, aye, to all the mazy world

Of silvery enchantment!—who, upfurl'd

Beneath thy drowsy wing a triple hour

But renovates and lives?

John Keats.

XLV.

A sleep

Full of sweet dreams and health and quiet breathing.

John Keats.

XLVI.

Now is the blackest hour of the long night,

The soul of midnight. Now, the pallid stars

Shine in the highest silver and the wind

That creepeth chill across the sleeping world

Holdeth no hint of morning. I look out

Into the glory of the night with tired,

Wide, sleepless eyes and think of you. There is

The hush of some great spirit o'er the earth.

Here, in the silence earth and sky are met

And merged into infinity. Oh, God

Of all, Thou who beholdest Destiny

As simple, Thou who understandest life

From birth to re-birth, who knows all our souls,

Grant her Thy perfect benediction, rest.

Leolyn Louise Everett.

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