Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Poems of Sentiment: VI. Labor and Rest

Sleep

John Wolcot (Peter Pindar) (1738–1819)

COME, gentle sleep! attend thy votary’s prayer,

And, though death’s image, to my couch repair;

How sweet, though lifeless, yet with life to lie,

And, without dying, O how sweet to die!