| Seccombe and Arber, comps. Elizabethan Sonnets. 1904. | | | | Astrophel and Stella | | XXXIX. Come Sleep! O Sleep! the certain knot of peace! | | Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) |
| | | COME SLEEP! O SLEEP! the certain knot of peace! | |
| The baiting place of wit! the balm of woe! | |
| The poor man’s wealth! the prisoner’s release! | |
| Th’indifferent judge between the high and low! | |
| With shield of proof, shield me from out the press | 5 |
| Of those fierce darts, DESPAIR at me doth throw! | |
| O make in me those civil wars to cease! | |
| I will good tribute pay if thou do so. | |
| Take thou of me, smooth pillows, sweetest bed, | |
| A chamber deaf to noise and blind to light, | 10 |
| A rosy garland, and a weary head: | |
| And if these things as being thine by right, | |
| Move not thy heavy Grace; thou shalt in me | |
| Livelier than elsewhere, STELLA’s image see. | | | | |
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