Samuel Daniel, Delia (“Care-charmer sleep”)

Night lines

Care-charmer sleep, son of the sable night, Brother to death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish, and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return,

Samuel Daniel Delia (“Care-charmer sleep”) sonnet LI in this edition, lines 1–4 first published 1592

Edition: Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles: Delia; Diana, ed. Martha Foote Crow (1896)
Read the whole text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/18842
Rights: Public domain: Daniel died in 1619; this edition was published in 1896.

sleepworrynight

What can I do when worry keeps me awake?
What can I do when I dread going to bed?