...sleep, as well as with their occasional inadequacy, recounts them in the following lines : " A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one ; the...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless ; and soon the small birds1 melodies Must...

...mind which is the usual prelude to sleep. Wordsworth thus describes a trial and failure : " ' A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless Even this last night, and two nights more...

...What sort of a " wideawake " poet was that, I mused, who lamented from his troubled pillow : "A Hock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one ; the...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky : I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless." There is a belief as old as tradition that...

...winds and seas, Smooth fields,' white sheets of water, and pure sky I've thought of all by turns, and yet I lie Sleepless ; and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear, first utter'd from my orchard trees, And the first cuckoo's melancholy cry. Even thus last night, and two...

...or heavy books, counting, or keeping before the fancy some blank or wearying picture — " A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one ; the...seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure skies." Mechanical remedies have nearly all for their purpose the withdrawal of the blood from the...

...or heavy books, counting, or keeping before the fancy some blank or wearying picture — " A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one ; the...seas, Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sides." Mechanical remedies have nearly all for their purpose the withdrawal of the blood from the...

...the fancy some blank or wearying picture— " A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by Oue after oue ; the sound of rain and bees Murmuring ; the fall of rivers, winds and seal. Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure skies." Mechanical remedies have nearly all for...

...stillness after storm, Though under covert of the wormy ground ! From The Excursion. SONNET A KLOCK of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ; the...Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky ; I thought of all by turns, and yet I lie Sleepless I and soon the small birds' melodies Must hear,...

...'Compare the list which Wordsworth gives as ineffectual in his sonnet on " Sleeplessness." "A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the...Murmuring: the fall of rivers, winds and seas. Smooth nelds. white sheets of water, and pure sky: I've thought of all by turns, and still I lie Sleepless:"...

...'Compare the list which Wordsworth gives as ineffectual in his sonnet on " Sleeplessness." "A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by One after one; the sound of rain and bees Murmurin«: the fall of rivers, winds and seas. Smooth fields, white sheets of water, and pure sky:...