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James Weldon Johnson (Джеймс Уэлдон Джонсон)


Sleep


O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man,
  Silent distiller of the balm of rest,
How wonderful thy power, when naught else can,
  To soothe the torn and sorrow-laden breast!
When bleeding hearts no comforter can find,
  When burdened souls droop under weight of woe,
When thought is torture to the troubled mind,
  When grief-relieving tears refuse to flow;
'Tis then thou comest on soft-beating wings,
  And sweet oblivion's peace from them is shed;
But ah, the old pain that the waking brings!
  That lives again so soon as thou art fled!

Man, why should thought of death cause thee to weep;
Since death be but an endless, dreamless sleep?



James Weldon Johnson's other poems:
  1. An Explanation
  2. Brer Rabbit, You's de Cutes' of 'Em All
  3. Down by the Carib Sea. 4. The Lottery Girl
  4. Venus in a Garden
  5. De Little Pickaninny's Gone to Sleep


Poems of another poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

  • Isaac Rosenberg (Айзек Розенберг) Sleep ("Godhead's lip hangs")
  • Abraham Cowley (Абрахам Каули) Sleep ("In vain, thou drowsy God! I thee invoke")
  • Henry Longfellow (Генри Лонгфелло) Sleep ("Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful sound")
  • John Tabb (Джон Табб) Sleep ("When he is a little chap")
  • Edward Young (Эдуард Юнг) Sleep ("Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep")

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