“Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
Canto XV, st. 11.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)
“O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?”
Source: Henry IV, Part 2
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That she in peace may wake and pity me.”
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