[SONETTO. DI GIOVANNI DELLA CASA.] SONNET, TO SLEEP. TRANSLATION (Mary) Matilda Betham Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T143264 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.

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[ SONETTO . DI GIOVANNI DELLA CASA . ] SONNET , TO SLEEP . TRANSLATION Son of the silent , dark , and humid Night , Consoler of the wretched , by whose sway The gloomy train of ills are put to flight , That blacken Life's uncertain , tedious day , O ! succour now this restless , pining heart ! Give to these feeble , weary limbs repose ! Fly to me Sleep ! and let thy sombre wings Over my couch their dusky plumes disclose ! O ! where is Silence , who avoids the light ? Where the wild dreams that flutter in thy train ? Alas ! in vain I call thee , cruel Night ! And flatter these insensate shades in vain . And oh ! without thy cheering dews are shed , How full of hardships is the downy bed !