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Poem by Louisa Stuart Costello


Lines (I cannot sleep—my nights glide on)


I cannot sleep—my nights glide on
    In one unbroken thought of thee;
And when the gloomy shades are gone,
    I start the dawning light to see.

And as I watch the rising morn
    Gain slowly o'er the yielding sky,
And mark another day new born,
    That glows so brightly—yet must die—

I think how all the hopes we cherish
    As transient, though as bright, will be;
And frailest of the hopes that perish
    Were mine, that told of love and thee! 



Louisa Stuart Costello


Louisa Stuart Costello's other poems:
  1. The Dreamer on the Sea-Shore
  2. November Fifth
  3. Song for a German Air
  4. Miranda's Song
  5. Song (In early days thy fondness taught)


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