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. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.

-Daniel, Samuel
  Delia, sonnet 54.

A group of senators, bleary eyed for lack of sleep, will have to sit down at about two o'clock in the morning around a table in a smoke-filled room in some hotel, and decide the nomination.

-Daugherty, Harry Micajah
  On the Republicans' failure to choose a presidential candidate at their convention.

Tous les jours on couche avec des femmes qu'on n'aime pas, et l'on ne couche pas avec des femmes qu'on aime. Every day we sleep with women we do not love and don't sleep with the women we do love.

-Diderot, Denis
c.1773  Jacques le fataliste et son ma|"  tre (published1796).

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more: Death, thou shalt die!

-Donne,John
c.1610^1615  Holy Sonnets, no.10.

Dear, why should you command me to my rest, When now the night doth summon all to sleep? Methinks this time becometh lovers best; Night was ordained together friends to keep.

-Drayton, Michael
  Ideas Mirrour, sonnet 37.

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.

-Farquhar, George
  The Beaux' Stratagem, act1, sc.1.

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, Brother to Death.

-Fo, Dario
c.1610^1614  Valentinian, act 5, sc.7.

La majestueuse e¤  galite¤   des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain. The majestic equality of laws forbids the rich as well as the poor tosleep under bridges, to beg inthestreets and to steal bread.

-Thibault
  Le Lys rouge.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'.

Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.

-Golding, Sir William (Gerald)
  Pincher Martin, ch.6.

With lack of sleep and too much understanding I grow a little crazy,Ithink, likeall menat seawho livetoo closeto each other and too close thereby to all that is monstrous under the sun and moon.

-Golding, Sir William (Gerald)
  Rites of Passage, closing words.

Aunque chillen los pedantes y arruguen todos el cen‹  o, lo declaro yo: Cervantes suele producirme suen‹  o Pedants may cry out loud or frown at me, but I must say it: Cervantes usually puts me to sleep.

-Gonza¤ l ez Prada, Manuel
  Grafitos,'Hombres y libros' ('Men and Books').

I climbed a hill as light fell short, And rooks came home in scramble sort, And filled the trees and flapped and fought And sang themselves to sleep.

-Hodgson, Ralph
  'Song of Honour'.

   Here! creep, Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'No worst, there is none'.

Clay lies still, but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad: when the journey's over There'll be time enough to sleep.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
  A Shropshire Lad, no.4.

   A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

-Keats,John
  Endymion, bk.1, l.1^5.

Morality Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep.

-Keats,John
  'On Seeing the Elgin Marbles'.

Stop and consider! life is but a day; A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way From a tree's summit; a poor Indian's sleep While his boat hastens to the monstrous steep Of Montmorenci.

-Keats,John
  'Sleep and Poetry', l.85^9.

And still she slept an azure-lidded sleep, In blanched linen, smooth, and lavendered, While he from forth the closet brought a heap Of candied apple, quince, and plum, and gourd; With jellies soother than the creamy curd, And lucent syrops, tinct with cinnamon; Manna and dates, in argosy transferred From Fez; and spiced dainties, every one, From silken Samarcand to cedared Lebanon.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'The Eve of St.  Agnes', stanza 30.

I'm going to visit every country in the world, eat all the food of the world, drink all the drink of the worldöand, I hope, make love to every woman in the world. Then I might get a good night's sleep.

-Keenan, Brian
  Said on his release, BBC  T V, 25  Aug.