<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507008" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sleep Flies Me</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sleep flies me like a lover<br>Too eagerly pursued,<br>Or like a bird to cover<br>Within some distant wood,<br>Where thickest boughs roof over<br>Her secret solitude.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The nets I spread to snare her,<br>Although with cunning wrought,<br>Have only served to scare her,<br>And now she'll not be caught.<br>To those who best could spare her,<br>She ever comes unsought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She lights upon their pillows;<br>She gives them pleasant dreams,<br>Grey-green with leaves of willows,<br>And cool with sound of streams,<br>Or big with tranquil billows,<br>On which the starlight gleams.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No vision fair entrances<br>My weary open eye,<br>No marvellous romances<br>Make night go swiftly by;<br>But only feverish fancies<br>Beset me where I lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The black midnight is steeping<br>The hillside and the lawn,<br>But still I lie unsleeping,<br>With curtains backward drawn,<br>To catch the earliest peeping<br>Of the desired dawn.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Perhaps, when day is breaking;<br>When birds their song begin,<br>And, worn with all night waking,<br>I call their music din,<br>Sweet sleep, some pity taking,<br>At last may enter in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Fuller+Murray">Robert Fuller Murray</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=507008" data-title="Sleep Flies Me de Robert Fuller Murray" data-description="Sleep flies me like a lover Too eagerly pursued, Or like a bird to cover Within some distant wood, Where thickest boughs roof over Her secret solitude. The nets I spread to snare her, Although with cunning wrought, Have only served to scare her, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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