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Poem by Edward Young


Sleep


Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep, —
He, like the world, his ready visit pays
Where fortune smiles: the wretched he forsakes,
And lights on lids unsullied by a tear.



Edward Young


Edward Young's other poems:
  1. Ocean: An Ode. Concluding with a Wish
  2. Penitence
  3. To the Right Hon. Mr. Dodington
  4. The Wind from the West
  5. Socrates


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Abraham Cowley Sleep ("In vain, thou drowsy God! I thee invoke")
  • Isaac Rosenberg Sleep ("Godhead's lip hangs")
  • Henry Longfellow Sleep ("Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful sound")
  • James Johnson Sleep ("O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man")
  • John Tabb Sleep ("When he is a little chap")

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