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There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.

There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sleep, Secret, Remember
Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.34, Everyman's Library

Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sleep, Grace, Soul
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.68

And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall; He giveth His beloved sleep.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fall, Sleep, Tears
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1882). “'He Giveth His Beloved Sleep'”, p.1, Library of Alexandria

Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Baby, Tired, Sleep
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.102

Tis aye a solemn thing to me To look upon a babe that sleeps-- Wearing in its spirit-deeps The unrevealed mystery Of its Adam's taint and woe, Which, when they revealed lie, Will not let it slumber so.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Lying, Sleep, Looks
Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning “The Brownings' Correspondence: January 1838-December 1840, letters 602-783”

O Earth, so full of dreary noises! O men, with wailing in your voices! O delved gold, the wader's heap! O strife, O curse, that o'er it fall! God makes a silence through you all, And "giveth His beloved, sleep.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Death, Fall, Sleep

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