Sleep - Liva

Sleep brings no joy to me

Remembrance never dies

My soul is given to misery

And lives in sighs

Sleep brings no rest to me

The shadows of the dead

My waking eyes may never see

Surround my bed

Sleep brings no hope to me

In soundest sleep they come

And with their doleful imagery

Deepen the gloom

Sleep brings no strength to me

No power renewed to brave

I only sail a wilder sea

A darker wave

Sleep brings no friend to me

To soothe and aid to bear

They all gaze, oh, how scornfully

And I despair

Sleep brings no wish to knit

My harassed heart beneath

My only wish is to forget

In the sleep of death.