Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SLEEP, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL


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SLEEP, by                    
First Line: To sleep! To float upon a dreamless wave!
Last Line: Far out to calm upon the ocean's night.
Subject(s): Night; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Bedtime


To sleep! To float upon a dreamless wave!
To feel the wind-swept senses softly close
Their portals from the currents of the day!
Delicious languor of the drooping lids!
A healing darkness on the aching eyes,
When sounds become but dying cadences
Which murmur into wooing silences;
The soft sweet wonder of forgetfulness
That creeps with its narcotic on each nerve:
Then slips the soul her anchor from all thought;
On each receding tide of consciousness,
She drifts away upon oblivion's sea,
Far out to calm upon the ocean's night.





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