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Summary

Sleep. That most mysterious of times.  The unconscious hours. 
 
Everyone needs it. Whether it’s the recommended eight hours, forty winks, cat naps, power naps or other shades of blissful slumber.  
 
Sleep offers a respite from the rigors and challenges of the day. A chance for the brain to process what has happened and bring rest and recuperation before the cycle of daytime activity begins again. 
 
Also, perchance to dream or, if we are unlucky, the visitation of nightmares. 
 
But for some people sleep does not come easy.  These can be wakeful hours of frustration or tedium where closing the eyes does not bring the closing of the mind and the slumber so keenly wanted. 
 
Part of the problem, in this increasingly frenetic 24/7 world is that we seem reluctant or unable to switch off enough to recuperate; we might miss something.  But slumbered hours bring gains in health that far outweigh transitory loss. 
 
01 - Fifty Shades of Slumber - An Introduction 
02 - Rest by Richard Le Gallienne 
03 - To Sleep by John Keats 
04 - Sleep by James Weldon Johnson 
05 - Sleep on Thine Eyes by Hafiz 
06 - Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton 
07 - Sleep by Tagore 
08 - Sleep Now, Oh Sleep Now by James Joyce 
11 - Sonnet XI - To Sleep by Charlotte Smith 
12 - Sleeping Together by Katherine Mansfield 
13 - Care Charming Sleep by John Fletcher 
14 - Sleep by Mirabai 
15 - Song VIII - While Ye Deemed Him A Sleeping by William Morris 
16 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal from The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson 
17 - Love and Sleep by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
18 - Nupital Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
19 - Celia, Sleeping or SInging by Thomas Stanley 
20 - Idea's Mirror. Sonnet XXXVII. Dear Why Should You Command Me To My Rest 
21 - The Indian Serenade by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
22 - From Dewy Dreams, My Soul Arise by James Joyce 
23 - At That Hour When All Things Have Repose by James Joyce 
24 - Seal Lullaby by Rudyard Kipling 
25 - Bed In Summer by Robert Louis Stevenson 
26 - Lullaby by Louisa May Alcott 
27 - Dreams by Robert Tannahill 
28 - The Dream by John Donne 
29 - The Dream by Amy Levy 
30 - A Ballad of Dreamland by Algernon Charles Swinburne 
31 - Dreamland by Edgar Allen Poe 
32 - Angel Spirits of Sleep by Robert Seymour Bridges 
33 - For the Bed at Kelmscott by William Morris 
34 - A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe 
35 - The Haunting Dream by Victor Plarr 
36 - Dreamland by Christina Georgine Rossetti 
37 - Hallucination by F S Flint 
38 - The Sleeper by Edgar Allan Poe 
39 - Good Night by Edward Thomas 
40 - Good Night by Mary Gilmore 
41 - My Sister's Sleep by Dante Gabriel Rossetti 
42 - The Promise of Sleep by Amy Levy 
43 - When Day Is Done by Tagore 
44 - A Sleepless Night by Alfred Austin 
45 - The Day is Done by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
46 - Sonnet XXVII - Weary with Toil by William Shakespeare 
47 - The End of the Day by Katharine Tynan 
48 - Sleepless by Sara Teasdale 
49 - What of the Darkness by Richard Le Gallienne 
50 - The Owl Disturbs the Bard's Sleep by Dafydd ap Gwilym 
51 - Insomnia by James Thomson

Duration: about 1 hour (01:11:09)
Publishing date: 2019-01-01; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —

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