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Sonnet XLV: Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night [by Samuel Daniel]

Samuel DanielXLV

    Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
   Brother to Death, in silent darkness born:
   Relieve my languish, and restore the light,
   With dark forgetting of my cares, return;
   And let the day be time enough to mourn
   The shipwreck of my ill-adventur'd youth:
   Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn,
   Without the torment of the night's untruth.
   Cease dreams, th' imagery of our day-desires,
  To model forth the passions of the morrow;
  Never let rising sun approve you liars,
  To add more grief to aggravate my sorrow.
  Still let me sleep, embracing clouds in vain;
  And never wake to feel the day's disdain.

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark


from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman

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