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Slumber Quotes - Page 2

In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.

Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “The Essential Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.195

Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers.

Ogden Nash (1941). “The face is familiar: the selected verse of Ogden Nash”, Garden City publishing company, inc

Some say that gleams of a remoter world Visit the soul in sleep — that death is slumber, And that its shapes the busy thoughts outnumber Of those who wake and live.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1831). “The poetical works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats”, p.467

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

Iris Murdoch (1977). “Under the Net”, p.166, Penguin

One slumber finds another.

George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.308

Hence, in these times, untouch'd the pages lie, And slumber out their immortality.

George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.38

O who knows what slumbers in the background of the times?

"Don Carlos" by Friedrich Schiller, Act I, sc. i, 1787.

Africa? A book one thumbs Listlessly, till slumber comes.

Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.64, Library of America