Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
John Fletcher. 15791625207. Sleep
COME, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving | |
Lock me in delight awhile; | |
Let some pleasing dreams beguile | |
All my fancies; that from thence | |
I may feel an influence | 5 |
All my powers of care bereaving! | |
Though but a shadow, but a sliding, | |
Let me know some little joy! | |
We that suffer long annoy | |
Are contented with a thought | 10 |
Through an idle fancy wrought: | |
O let my joys have some abiding! |