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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SLEEP NOT, DREAM NOT, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep not dream not this bright day Last Line: Adoring virtue's distant star Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): "sleep Not Dream Not This Bright Day""; | |||
Sleep not dream not this bright day Will not cannot last for aye Bliss like thine is bought by years Dark with torment and with tears Sweeter far than placid pleasure Purer higher beyond measure Yet alas the sooner turning Into hopeless endless mourning I love thee boy for all divine All full of God thy features shine Darling enthusiast holy child Too good for this world's warring wild Too heavenly now but doomed to be Hell-like in heart and misery And what shall change that angel brow And quench that spirit's glorious glow Relentless laws that disallow True virtue and true joy below And blame me not if when the dread Of suffering clouds thy youthful head If when by crime and sorrow tos[t] Thy wandering bark is wrecked and los[t] I too depart I too decline And make thy path no longer mine 'Tis thus that human minds will turn All doomed alike to sin and mourn Yet all with long gaze fixed afar Adoring virtue's distant star | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AH! WHY, BECAUSE THE DAZZLING SUN by EMILY JANE BRONTE ALL HUSHED AND STILL WITHIN THE HOUSE by EMILY JANE BRONTE IF GRIEF FOR GRIEF CAN TOUCH THEE by EMILY JANE BRONTE IN SUMMER'S MELLOW MIDNIGHT by EMILY JANE BRONTE LONG NEGLECT HAS WORN AWAY by EMILY JANE BRONTE LOUD WITHOUT THE WIND WAS ROARING by EMILY JANE BRONTE NO COWARD SOUL IS MINE by EMILY JANE BRONTE THAT WIND I USED TO HEAR IT SWELLING by EMILY JANE BRONTE THE NIGHT IS DARKENING ROUND ME by EMILY JANE BRONTE A DAY DREAM by EMILY JANE BRONTE |
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