Samuel Daniel

Here you will find the Poem Sonnet LIV: Care-Charmer Sleep of poet Samuel Daniel

Sonnet LIV: Care-Charmer Sleep

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, 
Brother to death, in silent darkness born, 
Relieve my languish and restore the light, 
With dark forgetting of my cares' return. 
And let the day be time enough to mourn 
The shipwrack of my ill-adventur'd youth; 
Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn 
Without the torment of the night's untruth. 
Cease Dreams, th'imagery of our day desires, 
To model forth the passions of the morrow; 
Never let the rising Sun approve you liars, 
To add more grief to aggravate my sorrow. 
Still let me sleep, embracing clouds in vain, 
And never wake to feel the day's disdain.