Marietta Holley Poems on Sleep Archives - Famous Inspirational Poems, Poetry, Quotes

"I leave my child to Heaven." And with these wordsUpon her lips, the Lady Mildred passedUnto the rest prepared for her ...

She sat in the cottage door, and the fair June moon looked down On a face as pure as its own, ...

A long, low waste of yellow sandLay shining northward far as eye could reach,Southward a rocky bluff rose highBroken in ...

Gayly a knight set forth against the foe,For a fair face had shone on him in dreams;A voice had stirred ...

Clasp your arms round her neck to-night, Little Nell,Arms so delicate, soft and white,And yet so strong in love's strange might;Clasp ...

I know not where you wait for me in all your maiden sweetness,Sweet soul in whom my life will find ...

Oh, the days are growing longer;So rang the jubilant song of the swallow; I come a-bringing beauty into the land,The sky ...

Come, gentle sleep, with the holy night, Come with the stars and the white moonbeams,Come with your train of handmaids bright, Blessed ...

Again I see that May moon shine,Dost thou remember, soul of mine?I held your hand in mine, you know,And as ...

She lay asleep, and her face shone white As under a snowy veil,And the waxen hands clasped on her breast Were full ...

Marietta Holley Poems on Sleep (10 Poems)