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I'm in a dowlandy mood.

Sleep, Wayward Thoughts 

Sleep, wayward thoughts, and rest you with my love;
Let not my love be with my love diseased.
Touch not proud hands lest you her anger move,
But pine you with my longings long displeased.
Thus while she sleeps I sorrow for her sake:
So sleeps my love and yet my love doth wake.

But O the fury of my restless fear,
The hidden anguish of my flesh desires;
The glories and the beauties that appear
Between her brows near Cupid’s closed fires;
Thus while she sleeps, moves sighing for her sake;
So sleeps my love and yet my love doth wake.

My love doth rage, and yet my love doth rest:
Fear in my love and yet my love secure;
Peace in my love and yet my love oppressed;
Impatient, yet of perfect temperature.
Sleep daity love, while I sigh for thy sake:
So sleeps my love, and yet my love doth wake. 


Come, Heavy Sleep 

Come, heavy sleep, the image of true death,
And close up these my weary weeping eyes,
Whose spring of tears doth stop my vital breath
Come, and possess my tired thought-worn soul
That living dies, till thou on me be stole.

Come, shadow of my end and shape of rest,
Allied to death, child to his black-faced night;
Come thou and charm these rebels in my breast
Whose waking fancies do my mind affright.
O come sweet sleep, come or I die for ever,
Come ere my last sleep comes, or come never. 



In Darkness Let Me Dwell
 

In darkness let me dwell; the ground shall sorrow be,
The roof despair, to bar all cheerful light from me;
The walls of marble black, that moist'ned still shall weep;
My music, hellish jarring sounds, to banish friendly sleep.
Thus, wedded to my woes, and bedded in my tomb,
O let me living, living die, till death doth come, till death doth come.

~
John Dowland, or his anonymous poet.

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