John Dowland Come Heavy Sleep
Music John Dowland published in the First book of songs 1613
Poem Fulke Greville published in 1633 in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes of the Right Honorable Fulke Lord Brooke
Come heavy sleep
The image of true death
And close up these my weary weeping eyes
Whose spring of tears doth stop my vital breath
And tears my heart with sorrows high swolln cries
Come and possess my tired thought-worn soul
That living dies that living dies that living dies
till thou on me be stole
Come shape of rest
And shadow of my end
Allied to Death child to this black-faced black-faced night
Come thou and charm these rebels in my breast
Whose waking fancies doth my mind affright
O come sweet sleep or I die forever
Come ere my last sleep comes come ere ma last sleep comes
O Come or come thou never
