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

    By Ragged Hand - Read & Co.

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRagged Hand - Read & Co.
    Release dateMay 26, 2020
    ISBN9781528790451
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      A Pillow Strewed with Thorns - Poetry of Sleepless Nights Written by Famed Authors - Ragged Hand - Read & Co.

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      A

      PILLOW STREWED

      WITH THORNS

      POETRY OF

      SLEEPLESS NIGHTS

      WRITTEN BY FAMED AUTHORS

      By

      VARIOUS

      Copyright © 2020 Ragged Hand

      This edition is published by Ragged Hand,

      an imprint of Read & Co. 

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or copied in any

      way without the express permission of the publisher in writing.

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library.

      Read & Co. is part of Read Books Ltd.

      For more information visit

      www.readandcobooks.co.uk

      a pillow strewed with thorns

      —

      Jane Austen

      Northanger Abbey, 1817

      Contents

      BELLS IN THE RAIN

      By Elinor Wylie

      SUNSET ON THE SPIRE

      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

      THE LOVER TO HIS BED, WITH DESCRIBING OF HIS UNQUIET STATE

      By Sir Thomas Wyatt

      OF CONSCIOUSNESS, HER AWFUL MATE

      By Emily Dickinson

      IT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY THE GODS

      By Emily Dickinson

      WATER MAKES MANY BEDS

      By Emily Dickinson

      A SPIDER SEWED AT NIGHT

      By Emily Dickinson

      SLEEP IS SUPPOSED TO BE

      By Emily Dickinson

      SLEEP BRINGS NO JOY TO ME

      By Emily Brontë

      STARS

      By Emily Brontë

      IN MEMORIAM

      AN EXCERPT

      By Alfred Lord Tennyson

      INSOMNIA

      By John B. Tabb

      SLEEP

      By John B. Tabb

      SLUMBER - SONG

      By John B. Tabb

      DAWN

      By John B. Tabb

      THE TRIUMPH OF LIFE

      By Percy Bysshe Shelley

      HUMANITAD

      AN EXCERPT

      By Oscar Wilde

      During last night’s insomnia, as these thoughts came and went between my aching temples, I realised once again, what I had almost forgotten in this recent period of relative calm, that I tread a terribly tenuous, indeed almost non-existent soil spread over a pit full of shadows, whence the powers of darkness emerge at will to destroy my life…

      —

      Franz Kafka

      Every man’s insomnia is as different from his neighbor’s as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

      —

      F. Scott Fitzgerald

      But his dread was the nights when he could not sleep. Then it was awful indeed, when annihilation pressed in on him on every side. Then it was ghastly, to exist without having any life: lifeless, in the night, to exist.

      —

      D. H. Lawrence

      A

      PILLOW STREWED

      WITH THORNS

      POETRY ON SLEEPLESSNESS

      BELLS IN THE RAIN

      By Elinor Wylie

      Sleep falls, with limpid drops of rain,

      Upon the steep cliffs of the town.

      Sleep falls; men are at peace again

      Awhile the small drops fall softly down.

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