Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
The Spanish Student http://www.readbookonline.net/title/3208/, Act I, sc. iii (serenade) (1843).
“And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep,
In blanched linen, smooth, and lavender’d.”
Stanza 30
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes
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