<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=535369" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Sleeper</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As Ann came in one summer's day, <br>She felt that she must creep, <br>So silent was the clear cool house, <br>It seemed a house of sleep. <br>And sure, when she pushed open the door, <br>Rapt in the stillness there, <br>Her mother sat, with stooping head, <br>Asleep upon a chair; <br>Fast -- fast asleep; her two hands laid <br>Loose-folded on her knee, <br>So that her small unconscious face <br>Looked half unreal to be: <br>So calmly lit with sleep's pale light <br>Each feature was; so fair <br>Her forehead -- every trouble was <br>Smooth'd out beneath her hair. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But though her mind in dream now moved, <br>Still seemed her gaze to rest <br>From out beneath her fast-sealed lids, <br>Above her moving breast, <br>On Ann, as quite, quite still she stood; <br>Yet slumber lay so deep <br>Even her hands upon her lap <br>Seemed saturate with sleep. <br>And as Ann peeped, a cloudlike dread <br>Stole over her, and then, <br>On stealthy, mouselike feet she trod, <br>And tiptoed out again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Walter+de+la+Mare">Walter de la Mare</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=535369" data-title="The Sleeper de Walter de la Mare" data-description="As Ann came in one summer's day, She felt that she must creep, So silent was the clear cool house, It seemed a house of sleep. And sure, when she pushed open the door, Rapt in the stillness there, Her mother sat, with stooping head, Asleep ..."></div> </div> </div>

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