Complete poetical works of John Hay / [by John Hay] ; with an introd. by Clarence L. Hay [electronic text]

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Complete poetical works of John Hay / [by John Hay] ; with an introd. by Clarence L. Hay [electronic text]
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Hay, John, 1838-1905, Hay, Clarence Leonard
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Boston, Mass. ; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company
1917
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"Complete poetical works of John Hay / [by John Hay] ; with an introd. by Clarence L. Hay [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE0027.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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SLEEP
I BLESS the power of this charmed summer night, I bless its magic and its mystery, Which in ecstatic visions brings to me The worshiped presence of my soul's delight. Mine eyes are sealed, but on my clearer sight Her heaven-bright features shine more radiantly, Her sweet voice with a richer melody Enchants the dark, more luminous than light. I miss the sense of daylight's haunting ills, Bathed in this lambent tide of sleep and love; I only see one dazzling image beam, Shrined in a rosy universe of dream, Fairer than Dian bending tranced above The sleeping shepherd on the Latmian hills.

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