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" Sleep is a reconciling, A rest that peace begets; Doth not the sun rise smiling When fair at even he sets? Rest you then, rest, sad eyes ! Melt not in weeping, While she lies sleeping Softly, now softly lies Sleeping. "
Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages - Page 49
by Percy Society - 1844
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 205

1907 - 584 pages
...begets ; Both not the sun rise smiling When fair at even he seta ? Rest you then, rest, sad eyes 1 Melt not in weeping While she lies sleeping Softly, now softly, lies Sleeping.' What would these lines be without the melodious interracings of liquid dissyllabic rhymes, and, with...
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Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the ..., Volume 13

Percy Society - English literature - 1844 - 320 pages
...Love or dislike yeeld fire, or give no fuell, So maist thou prove kind, or at the least less cruell. SLEEP. WEEPE you no more, sad fountaines, What need...she lies sleeping, Softly, now softly lies Sleeping. THE FORSAKEN FATHER. FAREWELL, unkind, farewell, To me no more a father:* Since my heart holdes my...
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The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language

English poetry - 1890 - 366 pages
...rest that peace begets : — Doth not the sun rise smiling, When fair at ev'n he sets ? — Kest yon, then, rest, sad eyes ! Melt not in weeping ! While...She lies sleeping Softly, now softly lies, Sleeping ! Anon. CCXCII LOVE TRIUMPHANT E'en like two little bank -dividing brooks, That wash the pebbles with...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...Sleeping Sleep is a reconciling, — A rest that peace begets ; Doth not the sun rise smiling, When fair of a tender tone, Whose trembling murmurs, melting...complaining his sweet cares ; Because those precio JOHN DOWLA1TO INVOCATION TO SLEEP. COME, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving Lock me in delight awhile...
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A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1873 - 906 pages
...reconciling, — A rest that peace begets ; Doth not the sun rise smiling, When fair at even he sets Т the 2 JOHN DOWLANQ INVOCATION TO SLEEP. COME, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving Lock me in delight awhile...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...rest that peace begets ; Doth not the sun rise smiling, When fair at even he sets ? Rest you, then, sad eyes, Melt not in weeping While she lies sleeping Softly, now softly lies sleeping. JOHN DOWLAND : Sleep. I pray thee let me weep to-night ; 'Tis rarely I am weeping; My tears are buried...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 576 pages
...reconciling, — A rest that peace begets ; Doth not the sun rise smiling. When fair at even he sets 1 Rest you then, rest, sad eyes, — Melt not in weeping....she lies sleeping Softly, now softly lies Sleeping. JOHN DOWLAND. INVOCATION TO SLEEP. COME, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving Lock me in delight awhile...
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A New Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1877 - 630 pages
...— A rest that peace begets ; Doth not the sun rise smiling, When fair at even he sets ? Rest yon then, rest, sad eyes, — Melt not in weeping, While...she lies sleeping Softly, now softly lies Sleeping. JOHN DOWLAND. INVOCATION TO SLEEP. COME, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving Lock me in delight awhile...
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An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature, Volume 4

Edward Arber - English literature - 1882 - 664 pages
...begets ! Doth not the sun rise smiling, When fair at e'en he sets? Rest you ! then, rest, sad eyes I Melt not in weeping, While she lies sleeping Softly! now softly lies sleeping ! 62O LYRICS, ELEGIES, &c. FROM | IE on this feigning ! Is Love without Desire? Heat still remaining,...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1878 - 788 pages
...rest that peace begets ; Doth not the sun rise smiling, When fair at even he sets ? Rest you, then, sad eyes, Melt not in weeping While she lies sleeping Softly, now softly lies sleeping. JOHN DOWLAND: Sleep. I pray thee let me weep to-night; 'Tis rarely I am weeping ; My tears are buried...
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