Sleep, sleep, thou lovely one! The little mouse cheeps plaintively, The nightingale in the chestnut-tree -- They sing together, bird and mouse, In starlight, in darkness, lonely, sweet, The wild notes and the faint notes meet -- Sleep, sleep, thou lovely one! Sleep, sleep, thou lovely one! Amid the lilies floats the moth, The mole along his galleries goeth In the dark earth; the summer moon Looks like a shepherd through the pane Seeking his feeble lamb again -- Sleep, sleep, thou lovely one! Sleep, sleep, thou lovely one! Time comes to keep night-watch with thee, Nodding with roses, and the sea Saith 'Peace! Peace!' amid his foam. 'O be still!' The wind cries up the whispering hill -- Sleep, sleep, thou lovely one! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...DUSK IN WAR TIME by SARA TEASDALE OUTIDANA: A DIRGE by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES APPARENT FAILURE by ROBERT BROWNING ANIMAL TRANQUILITY AND DECAY; A SKETCH by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH TO A WOMAN by KENNETH SLADE ALLING TO THE AUTHOR OF TEUCHSA GRONDIE by LEVI BISHOP MARCELIA; A TRAGICOMEDY, SELECTION by FRANCES BOOTHBY |