SLEEP; and my song shall build about your bed A paradise of dimness. You shall feel The folding of tired wings; and peace will dwell Throned in your silence: and one hour shall hold Summer, and midnight, and immensity Lulled to forgetfulness. For, where you dream, The stately gloom of foliage shall embower Your slumbering thought with tapestries of blue. And there shall be no memory of the sky, Nor sunlight with its cruelty of swords. But, to your soul that sinks from deep to deep Through drowned and glimmering colour, Time shall be Only slow rhythmic swaying; and your breath; And roses in the darkness; and my love. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...EYE-WITNESS by FREDERICK RIDGELY TORRENCE MONHEGAN GULLS by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON TO EACH HIS DREAM by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON ODE: ACME AND SEPTIMUS; OR, LOVE DUET by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS THE ANODYNE by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN |