Sleep. That most mysterious of times. The unconscious hours.
Everyone needs it. Whether it’s the recommended eight hours, forty winks, cat naps, power naps or other shades of blissful slumber.
Sleep offers a respite from the rigors and challenges of the day. A chance for the brain to process what has happened and bring rest and recuperation before the cycle of daytime activity begins again.
Also, perchance to dream or, if we are unlucky, the visitation of nightmares.
But for some people sleep does not come easy. These can be wakeful hours of frustration or tedium where closing the eyes does not bring the closing of the mind and the slumber so keenly wanted.
Part of the problem, in this increasingly frenetic 24/7 world is that we seem reluctant or unable to switch off enough to recuperate; we might miss something. But slumbered hours bring gains in health that far outweigh transitory loss.
01 - Fifty Shades of Slumber - An Introduction
02 - Rest by Richard Le Gallienne
03 - To Sleep by John Keats
04 - Sleep by James Weldon Johnson
05 - Sleep on Thine Eyes by Hafiz
06 - Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton
07 - Sleep by Tagore
08 - Sleep Now, Oh Sleep Now by James Joyce
11 - Sonnet XI - To Sleep by Charlotte Smith
12 - Sleeping Together by Katherine Mansfield
13 - Care Charming Sleep by John Fletcher
14 - Sleep by Mirabai
15 - Song VIII - While Ye Deemed Him A Sleeping by William Morris
16 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson
17 - Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne
18 - Nupital Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
19 - Celia, Sleeping or SInging by Thomas Stanley
20 - Idea's Mirror. Sonnet XXXVII. Dear Why Should You Command Me To My Rest
21 - The Indian Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley
22 - From Dewy Dreams, My Soul Arise by James Joyce
23 - At That Hour When All Things Have Repose by James Joyce
24 - Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling
25 - Bed In Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson
26 - Lullaby by Louisa May Alcott
27 - Dreams by Robert Tannahill
28 - The Dream by John Donne
29 - The Dream by Amy Levy
30 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne
31 - Dreamland by Edgar Allen Poe
32 - Angel Spirits of Sleep by Robert Seymour Bridges
33 - For the Bed at Kelmscott by William Morris
34 - A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe
35 - The Haunting Dream by Victor Plarr
36 - Dreamland by Christina Georgine Rossetti
37 - Hallucination by F S Flint
38 - The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe
39 - Good Night by Edward Thomas
40 - Good Night by Mary Gilmore
41 - My Sister's Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
42 - The Promise of Sleep by Amy Levy
43 - When Day Is Done by Tagore
44 - A Sleepless Night by Alfred Austin
45 - The Day is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
46 - Sonnet XXVII - Weary with Toil by William Shakespeare
47 - The End of the Day by Katharine Tynan
48 - Sleepless by Sara Teasdale
49 - What of the Darkness by Richard Le Gallienne
50 - The Owl Disturbs the Bard's Sleep by Dafydd ap Gwilym
51 - Insomnia by James Thomson
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