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Mine head upon thy lap, love, let me lieI am wounded and without thee I shall dieLull me and love me, love, till I am wellGabrielTurn on me sweetly till my soul have easeThine evening eyes that seem to breathe forth peaceWherefrom the tender tears are quick to quellGabrielAh! for an everlasting afternoonLift not thine eyes, lest sunset come too soonWith the long tolling of the vesper bellGabrielThe sweet, slow, sleepy, solemn sounds that seemLike incantations half heard in a dreamOr sad-eyed Siren singing some strange sea spellGabrielSing me to sleep while the long shadows waneSing to me the songs of childhood, come againWith thy sweet eyes that all ill thoughts repelGabrielIn blessing lay thine hands upon my headLetras de cancionesAh! would that with the sunset I were dead!Having lived for one sweet hour, too sweet to tellGabrielLiving no longer than the lingering lightSeeing thy sweet eyes slowly sink from sightWhile the slant shadows sound my dying knellGabrielPoem by Eric Stenbock From Letras Mania