Posthumous Poems/Love and Sleep, II

by Algernon Charles Swinburne

For works with similar titles, see Love and Sleep.

II
Hide thine eyes for all their light,
 Lest they come to weep;
Who shall say if day or night
 Be the best for sleep?

If by day they wake,
 Sorrow surely shall they see;
And for sorrow's sake
 Joyless all their joy shall be.

Sun shall set and moon shall rise
 Till the end of years,
But by night were never eyes
 Watched and shed not tears.

Look not forth to find
 Where thou never shalt find rest,
Lest thine eyes wax blind,
 Love is good, but sleep is best.