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" Sleepless! and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first uttered from my orchard trees; And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two nights more, I lay, And could not win thee, Sleep! by any stealth: So do not let me wear... "
The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth - Page 268
by William Wordsworth - 1827
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Poems, in Two Volumes,

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...<D gentle Creature ! do not use me so, But once and deeply let me be beguiled. 5. TO SLEEP. A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky; I've thought of all by turns; and still I lie Sleepless; and soon the small birds melodies Must hear,...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...gentle Creature ! do not use me so, But once and deeply let me be beguiled ! 173 XVI. TO SLEEP. A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I've thought of all by turns ; and still I lie Sleepless; and soon the small birds' melodies Must...
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Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the ...

William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...gentle Creature ! do not use me so, But once and deeply let me be beguiled ! XVI. TO SLEEP. A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one; the...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I've thought of all by turns ; and still I lie Sleepless ; and soon the small birds' melodies Must...
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The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, Volume 3

William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1820 - 362 pages
...gentle Creature ! do not use me so, But once and deeply let me be beguiled ! XXVI. TO SltET. A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky; I've thought of all by turns ; and still I lie Sleepless ; and soon the small birds' melodies Must...
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The Sonnets of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - Sonnets, English - 1899 - 308 pages
...of them who never for thee prayed, Still last to come where thou art wanted most ! To Sleep A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I have thought of all by turns, and yet do lie Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must...
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The Magazine of the beau monde; or, Monthly journal of fashion [afterw.] The ...

1843 - 572 pages
...SLEEP. WORDSWORTH. A flock of sheep that leisurely pass hy, One after one; the sound of rain, and hees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds and seas, Smooth...white sheets of water, and pure sky, By turns have all heen thought of, yet I lie Sleepless : and soon the small hirds' melodies Must hear, first uttered...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...floods, — the stars; a spectacle as old As the beginning of the heavens and earth! TO SLEEP. A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one; the...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky; I've thought of all by turns; and still I lie Sleepless; and soon the small bird's melodies Must hear,...
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Specimens of English Sonnets

English poetry - 1833 - 240 pages
...painful past, Compose my decent head, and breathe my last ! 189 WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. TO SLEEP. A FLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one, ;...and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first utter'd from my orchard trees ; And the first Cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two...
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Elements of Rhetoric and Literary Criticism: With Copious Practical ...

James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...sonnet? A. The following, " To Sleep," is a very fine spec* men of one from Wordsworth : " A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the...seas, Smooth fields ; white sheets of water, and pure sk" . I thought of all by -turns, and yet I lie Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, Etc. Etc

William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...Mere slave of them who never for thee prayed, Still last to come where thou art wanted most ! A FLOCR of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I have thought of all by turns, and yet do lie Sleepless ! and soon the small birds' melodies Must...
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