John Dowland Poems

In darkness let me dwell, the ground shall sorrow be,
The roof despair to bar all cheerful light from me,
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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,
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Weep you no more, sad fountains;
What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
Heaven's sun doth gently waste.
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Come ye heavy states of night,
Do my father's spirit right,
Soundings baleful let me borrow,
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Wilt thou unkind thus reave me
Of my heart, of my heart,
And so leave me, and so leave me?
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Mourn, mourn, day is with darkness fled,
What heavn's then governs earth,
O none, but hell in heaven's stead,
Choke with his mists our mirth.
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