Come Sleep, O Sleep! The Certain Knot Of Peace
by Sir Philip Sidney
Come, Sleep! O Sleep, the certain knot of peace,
The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,
The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,
Th’ indifferent judge between the high and low;
With shield of proof shield me from out the press
Of those fierce darts Despair at me doth throw!
O make in me those civil wars to cease!—
I will good tribute pay if thou do so.
Take thou of me smooth pillows, sweetest bed,
A chamber deaf of noise and blind of light,
A rosy garland, and a weary head;
And if these things, as being thine in right,
Move not thy heavy grace, thou shalt in me,
Livelier than elsewhere, Stella’s image see.
End of the poem
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- Владимир Бенедиктов – Запретный плод
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman
- The Last Meeting by Siegfried Sassoon
- Николай Огарев – Свисти ты, о ветер, с бессонною силой
- Twilight by Shaunna Harper
- Lallji My Desire
- Шекспир – Пример тебе подобной красоты – Сонет 84
- Юлия Друнина – Бережем тех, кого любим
- Владимир Вишневский – Кто-то тянется к водному поло
- Orlando Furioso Canto 7 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Ella Mason And Her Eleven Cats by Sylvia Plath
- On Hearing The Bag-Pipe And Seeing “The Stranger” Played At Inverary poem – John Keats poems
- Claribel: A Melody poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Василий Жуковский – Теснятся все к тебе во храм
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Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) was an English courtier, statesman, soldier, diplomat, writer, and patron of scholars and poets. He was a godson of Philip II of Spain. Sir Philip Sidney was considered the ideal gentleman of his day. He is also one of the most important poets of the Elizabethan Era.