<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476006" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ode To Sleep</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gentle divinity, how have I merited? <br>Whither, unfortunate wretch, have I strayed, <br>Thus of thy bounty to lie disenherited - <br>I alone whilst every other is paid? <br>Sleeping are cattle and birds without number, <br>Beasts of the wilderness rest in their lair; <br>Even the hills, as if weary, feign slumber, <br>Even the torment sighs soft in the air. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Lulled are the shuttering waves of the ocean, <br>Seas in the lap of the land lie at peace. <br>Only for me in monotonous motion <br>Day follows day, and there comes no release. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Moonlight & starlight & light of the morning <br>Seven times flit o'er my feverish cheek. <br>Once again Dawn's chilly hand offers warning. <br>Whither, oh whither for rest shall I seek? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Had I the eyes of an Argus, nor heeded <br>Ever to keep my whole body awake - <br>Half of the sentries alone being needed - <br>Still I could never my slumber-thirst slake. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yet - if there's one in the arms of a lover <br>Scornful of sleep and the joy that sleep brings, <br>Come thou to me! I'll not ask thee to cover <br>My eyes with the fullest extant of thy wings </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Happier suitors may sue for such blessing, <br>I'll beg a touch, be it ever so slight, <br>Of thy wand, or a whisk of thy garment caressing <br>My eyelids to droop as it crosses the night.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Pablius+Papinius+Statius">Pablius Papinius Statius</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=476006" data-title="Ode To Sleep de Pablius Papinius Statius" data-description="Gentle divinity, how have I merited? Whither, unfortunate wretch, have I strayed, Thus of thy bounty to lie disenherited - I alone whilst every other is paid? Sleeping are cattle and birds without number, Beasts of the wilderness rest in thei..."></div> </div> </div>

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