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I would that Fate— Not bearing agony too great, Nor stretching me too long on couch of pain— Would bid mine eyelids keep The morningless and unawakening sleep!

From The House of Atreus by Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)

The touch of his arm was lost in the unawakening night.

From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)

And when the new morn stepped from the same cold East They lay unawakening in the barren light, Their song and their imaginations bright, Their pains and fears and all bewilderment ceased....

From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John

And when the new morn stepped from the same cold East They lay unawakening in the barren light, Their song and their imaginations bright, Their pains and fears and all bewilderment ceased….

From Georgian Poetry 1916-17 Edited by Sir Edward Howard Marsh by Marsh, Edward Howard, Sir

And no message of Epicurus seems to his Roman interpreter so full of peace and blessing as the gospel of nothingness after death, the “morningless and unawakening sleep” which ends the fretful fever of life.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel