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If thou wilt ease thine heart Of lover and all its smart Then sleep, dear, sleep.

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

1850

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Broken heart Moving forward Sleep as balm Sleep

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1850

Person

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Death's Jest Book. Routledge, 2020.

Original citation

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell. Death's Jest-book; Or, The Fool's Tragedy. London: William Pickering, 1850.

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If thou wilt ease thine heart Of lover and all its smart Then sleep, dear, sleep. — Thomas Lovell Beddoes

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