A HOUSE of sleepers -- I, alone unblest, Am yet awake and empty vigil keep. When these, who spend life's day with me, find rest, Oh, let me hot be last to fall asleep! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON AN UNFINISHED STATUE BY MICHAEL ANGELO by GEORGE SANTAYANA LINES WRITTEN AT THE GRAVE OF ALEXANDER DUMAS by GWENDOLYN B. BENNETT THE SHRUBBERY, WRITTEN IN A TIME OF AFFLICTION by WILLIAM COWPER NATURE (2) by RALPH WALDO EMERSON THE PASSIONATE SHEPHERD TO HIS LOVE by CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE SPANIARDS' GRAVES AT THE ISLES OF SHOALS by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER |