Algernon Charles Swinburne Sleep Quotations

Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

I shall sleep, and move with the moving ships, Change as the winds change, veer in the tide.

His life is a watch or a vision Between a sleep and a sleep.

Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good, and to forgive.

Then star nor sun shall waken, Nor any change of light: Nor sound of waters shaken, Nor any sound or sight: Nor wintry leaves nor vernal; Nor days nor things diurnal; Only the sleep eternal In an eternal night.

There is no God found stronger than death; and death is a sleep.