Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
John Fletcher. 1579–1625207. Sleep
| COME, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving | |
| Lock me in delight awhile; | |
| Let some pleasing dreams beguile | |
| All my fancies; that from thence | |
| I may feel an influence | 5 |
| All my powers of care bereaving! | |
| Though but a shadow, but a sliding, | |
| Let me know some little joy! | |
| We that suffer long annoy | |
| Are contented with a thought | 10 |
| Through an idle fancy wrought: | |
| O let my joys have some abiding! |