Sonnet XLV: Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night

By Samuel Daniel

XLV

    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 shipwreck 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 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.

NOTESForm: sonnet: ababcdcdefefgg 1. Imitated from Desportes, Hippolyte, 75.