{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pos/pos73.htm","path":"cla/pos/pos73.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/pos/pos73.htm","text":"The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]\nDark-eyed Sleep, child of Night,\n \u00a0\u00a0Come in thy shadow garment to my couch,\n And with thy soothing touch,\n Cool as the vesper breeze,\n \u00a0\u00a0Grant that I may forget;\nBestow condign release,\n \u00a0\u00a0A taste of rest that comes with endless sleep;\n Lure off the haunting dreams,\n The dire Eumenides\n \u00a0\u00a0That torture my repose.\nFor I would live a space\n \u00a0\u00a0Though Phaon has forsaken me, nor yet\n Be found on shadow fields\n Among the lilies tall\n \u00a0\u00a0Of pale Persephone.","title":"The Poems of Sappho: Phaon: Dark-Eyed Sleep","type":"page"}