A Pillow Strewed with Thorns - Poetry of Sleepless Nights Written by Famed Authors

Various

• Publisher: Ragged Hand - Read & Co.
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781528717267
• eBook ISBN: 9781528790451
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Sleeplessness has long been a blessing and a curse for many a writer. Detrimental to health and concentration yet frequently a fantastic source of creativity, sleeplessness has been both topic and motivation for innumerable written works. This fantastic collection brings together a variety of poems connected to sleeplessness written by some of the most influential poets to have ever existed, including Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Dickinson and others. Highly recommended for poetry lovers and night owls alike. The poems include: "Bells in the Rain, by Elinor Wylie", "Insomnia, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti", "The Sleepers, by Walt Whitman", "Hours Continuing Long, by Walt Whitman", "To Sleep, by William Wordsworth", "Astrophil And Stella 39, Come Sleep! O Sleep, The Certain Knot of Peace, by Sir Philip Sidney", "Sonnet 27, by William Shakespeare", "The First Part, Sonnet 9, by William Drummond", etc. As part of our poetry imprint, "Ragged Hand", Read & Co. is proudly publishing this brand new collection of classic poetry for the enjoyment of a new generation of readers.

THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

Swift as a spirit hastening to his task

Of glory and of good, the Sun sprang forth

Rejoicing in his splendour, and the mask

Of darkness fell from the awakened Earth—

The smokeless altars of the mountain snows

Flamed above crimson clouds, and at the birth

Of light, the Ocean's orison arose,

To which the birds tempered their matin lay.

All flowers in field or forest which unclose

Their trembling eyelids to the kiss of day,

Swinging their censers in the element,

With orient incense lit by the new ray

Burned slow and inconsumably, and sent

Their odorous sighs up to the smiling air;

And, in succession due, did continent,

Isle, ocean, and all things that in them wear

The form and character of mortal mould,

Rise as the Sun their father rose, to bear

Their portion of the toil, which he of old

Took as his own, and then imposed on them:

But I, whom thoughts which must remain untold

Had kept as wakeful as the stars that gem

The cone of night, now they were laid asleep

Stretched my faint limbs beneath the hoary stem

Which an old chestnut flung athwart the steep

Of a green Apennine: before me fled

The night; behind me rose the day; the deep

Was at my feet, and Heaven above my head,—

When a strange trance over my fancy grew

Which was not slumber, for the shade it spread

Was so transparent, that the scene came through

As clear as when a veil of light is drawn

O'er evening hills they glimmer; and I knew

That I had felt the freshness of that dawn

Bathe in the same cold dew my bro...

Table of contents

• BELLS IN THE RAIN
• SUNSET ON THE SPIRE
• INSOMNIA
• THE SLEEPERS
• HOURS CONTINUING LONG
• TO SLEEP
• ASTROPHIL AND STELLA 39
• SONNET 27
• THE FIRST PART
• THE LOVER TO HIS BED, WITH DESCRIBING OF HIS UNQUIET STATE
• OF CONSCIOUSNESS, HER AWFUL MATE
• IT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY THE GODS
• WATER MAKES MANY BEDS
• A SPIDER SEWED AT NIGHT
• SLEEP IS SUPPOSED TO BE
• SLEEP BRINGS NO JOY TO ME
• STARS
• IN MEMORIAM
• INSOMNIA
• SLEEP
• SLUMBER - SONG
• DAWN
• THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE
• HUMANITAD