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TO SLEEP by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON

Poet Analysis

First Line: COME SLEEP, AND KISS MINE EYELIDS DOWN
Last Line: FOR MY POOR SAKE.
Subject(s): SLEEP;
COME Sleep, and kiss mine eyelids down;
Let me forget
Hope's treachery, and Fortune's frown,
And Life's vain fret.

And would you hold me fast, dear Sleep,
I need not wake,
Since they wake not who used to weep
For my poor sake.



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