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[SONETTO. DI GIOVANNI DELLA CASA.]
SONNET, TO SLEEP. TRANSLATION
1 Son of the silent, dark, and humid Night,
2 Consoler of the wretched, by whose sway
3 The gloomy train of ills are put to flight,
4 That blacken Life's uncertain, tedious day,
5 O! succour now this restless, pining heart!
6 Give to these feeble, weary limbs repose!
7 Fly to me Sleep! and let thy sombre wings
8 Over my couch their dusky plumes disclose!
9 O! where is Silence, who avoids the light?
10 Where the wild dreams that flutter in thy train?
11 Alas! in vain I call thee, cruel Night!
12 And flatter these insensate shades in vain.
13 And oh! without thy cheering dews are shed,
14 How full of hardships is the downy bed!
Source edition
Betham, Mary Matilda, 1776-1852. Elegies and Other Small Poems, by Matilda Betham. Ipswich: Printed by W. Burrell, and sold by Longman, Paternoster-Row, and Jermyn and Forster, Ipswich, 1797, p. 101. (ESTC T143264)
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Typography, spelling, capitalization, and punctuation have been cautiously modernized. The source of the text is given and all significant editorial interventions have been recorded in textual notes. This ECPA text has been edited to conform to the recommendations found in Level 5 of the Best Practices for TEI in Libraries version 4.0.0.
Other works by (Mary) Matilda Betham
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- [CANTATA DELLO STESSO.] TRANSLATION. ()
- [CANTATA. [DELL] METASTAISO.] TRANSLATION. ()
- CEN'LIN, PRINCE OF MERCIA. ()
- THE COMPLAINT OF FANCY. To A. R. C. ()
- EDITHA ()
- FRAGMENT. ()
- FRAGMENT. ()
- THE FRATERNAL DUEL. ()
- HUMAN PLEASURE OR PAIN. ()
- IN A LETTER to A.R.C. ON HER WISHING TO BE CALLED ANNA. ()
- IN MEMORY OF Mr. AGOSTINO ISOLA, OF CAMBRIDGE, Who died on the 5th of June, 1797. ()
- INVITATION, To J. B. C. ()
- [LA FORTUNA. DELLO STESSO.] TRANSLATION. ()
- THE LONELY WALK To W. S. B. ()
- ON A FAN ()
- ON THE EVE OF DEPARTURE From O — ()
- THE OUTLAW ()
- PHILEMON. ()
- RHAPSODY ()
- THE TERRORS OF GUILT ()
- TO M. I. ()
- TO M. I. ()
- TO SIMPLICITY. ()
- TO THE NUNS OF BODNEY. ()
- Written April the 18th, 1796. ()
- Written in London, on the 19th of March 1796. ()
- WRITTEN IN ZIMMERMANN's SOLITUDE. ()
- WRITTEN ON WHITSUN-MONDAY 1795. ()