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An ODE To SLEEP
I.
1 COME, gentle God of soft Repose,
2 And charm my Soul to Rest;
3 In thy Embraces let me lose
4 The Cares that rack my Breast.
II.
[Page 50]5 Arise, ye dear Deceits, arise,
6 And drest in Damon's Form,
7 My long-expecting, wishing Eyes
8 With his Resemblance charm.
III.
9 Those melting Sounds still let me hear,
10 Which did his Flame impart;
11 Which blest with Love my list'ning Ear,
12 And pierc'd my yielding Heart.
IV.
13 Why rove my Thoughts on fancied Bliss
14 Which only Dreams bestow;
15 For oh whene'er the Morn appears,
16 I wake to real Woe.
V.
[Page 51]17 The envious Light from my sad Eyes,
18 Drives all my Bliss away;
19 With Night the lovely Phantom flies,
20 And leaves me lost in Day.
VI.
21 Since waking then I am distrest,
22 And Pleasure's fled with him;
23 If sleeping I can still be blest,
24 Let Life be all a Dream.
About this text
Author: Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay)
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address; ode
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Lennox, Charlotte, ca. 1729-1804. Poems on Several Occasions. Written by a Young Lady. London: printed for, and sold by S. Paterson, 1747, pp. 49-51. [8],88p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T139692; OTA K110146.000) (Page images digitized from microfilm of a copy in the Bodleian Library [G.Pamph. 1289 (14)].)
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Other works by Charlotte Lennox (née Ramsay)
- The ADVICE, An ODE. ()
- AMINTA and DELIA. A PASTORAL. ()
- ARDELIA to FLAVIA, An EPISTLE. ()
- The ART of COQUETTRY. ()
- The DREAM. ()
- ENVY. A SATIRE. ()
- An EPISTLE TO MONESES, IN IMITATION of OVID. ()
- A HYMN to VENUS, IN IMITATION of SAPHO. ()
- In Answer to Consolatory Verses wrote by a Friend. ()
- THE LANGUAGE of the EYES TO LADY J— F—. ()
- An ODE, IN IMITATION of SAPHO. ()
- An ODE. ()
- ON A LADY's Singing. ()
- On reading HUTCHISON on the PASSIONS. ()
- A PARODY ON AN ODE of HORACE, As TRANSLATED by Mr. FARQUHAR. ()
- A PASTORAL, FROM THE SONG of SOLOMON. ()
- PHILANDER. ()
- The QUESTION. ()
- THE RIVAL NYMPHS. A TALE. ()
- SHALLUM to HILPAH, An EPISTLE. From the SPECTATOR. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- TO A LADY Singing. ()
- To AURELIA, on her attempting to write Verses. ()
- To FLAVIA, An ODE. ()
- To MIRA. Inviting her to a RETREAT in the COUNTRY. ()
- TO MONESES Singing. ()
- Verses wrote extempore on a Gentleman's playing on the Flute. ()