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Sleep Quotes by William Butler Yeats
- When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.
- Now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round…
- What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's arms?
- When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of…
- When You Are Old" WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly…
- Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden…
- One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my…
- While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its…
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