National Lyrics, and Songs for Music/Come to me, gentle sleep

by Felicia Hemans

For other versions of this work, see Come to me, Sleep!.

‡ COME TO ME, GENTLE SLEEP.

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Come to me, gentle sleep!
    I pine, I pine for thee;
Come with thy spells, the soft, the deep,
    And set my spirit free!
Each lonely, burning thought,
    In twilight langour steep—
Come to the full heart, long o'erwrought,
    O gentle, gentle sleep!

Come with thine urn of dew,
    Sleep, gentle sleep! yet bring
No voice, love's yearning to renew,
    No vision on thy wing!

Come, as to folding flowers,
    To birds in forests deep;
—Long, dark, and dreamless be thine hours,
    O gentle, gentle sleep!