“Sleep, sleep, beauty bright,
Dreaming o'er the joys of night.
Sleep, sleep: in thy sleep
Little sorrows sit and weep.”

A Cradle Song, st. 1
1790s, Poems from Blake's Notebook (c. 1791-1792)

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English Romantic poet and artist 1757–1827

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