Sleep. John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (1738-1819). Poems of Sentiment: VI. Labor and Rest. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. VI. Fancy

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume VI. Fancy. 1904.

Poems of Sentiment: VI. Labor and Rest

Sleep

John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (1738–1819)


COME, gentle sleep! attend thy votary’s prayer,
And, though death’s image, to my couch repair;
How sweet, though lifeless, yet with life to lie,
And, without dying, O how sweet to die!