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I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful read more
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.
 Sleep is a death, O make me try,
 By sleeping, what it is to die:
  And as read more 
 Sleep is a death, O make me try,
 By sleeping, what it is to die:
  And as gently lay my head
   On my grave, as now my bed. 
 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or 
much: but the abundance of the read more 
 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or 
much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to 
sleep. 
Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any
Sleep is like the unicorn - it is rumored to exist, but I doubt I will see any
 Sleep hath its own world,
 A boundary between the things misnamed
  Death and existence: Sleep hath its read more 
 Sleep hath its own world,
 A boundary between the things misnamed
  Death and existence: Sleep hath its own world,
   And a wide realm of wild reality,
    And dreams in their development have breath,
     And tears and tortures, and the touch of joy. 
 There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the 
libraries of the House of read more 
 There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the 
libraries of the House of Commons. 
 Still believe that ever round you
 Spirits float who watch and wait;
  Nor forget the twain who read more 
 Still believe that ever round you
 Spirits float who watch and wait;
  Nor forget the twain who found you
   Sleeping nigh the Golden Gate. 
 Sleep on, Baby, on the floor,
 Tired of all the playing,
  Sleep with smile the sweeter for
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 Sleep on, Baby, on the floor,
 Tired of all the playing,
  Sleep with smile the sweeter for
   That you dropped away in!
    On your curls' full roundness stand
     Golden lights serenely--
      One cheek, pushed out by the hand,
       Folds the dimple inly. 
 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, 
only makest me dwell in safety.  
 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, 
only makest me dwell in safety.