John Milton Quotes About Sleep
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And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.
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Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
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His sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.
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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.
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Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.
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What hath night to do with sleep?
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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.
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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks; methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.
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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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A death-like sleep, A gentle wafting to immortal life.
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The timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumb'rous weight inclines Our eyelids.
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The timely dew of sleep.
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