Careful Words

asleep (v.)

asleep (adv.)

asleep (adj.)

Asleep in lap of legends old.

John Keats (1795-1821): The Eve of St. Agnes. Stanza 15.

  Like the best wine, . . . that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

Old Testament: The Song of Solomon vii. 9.

Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep!

The river glideth at his own sweet will;

Dear God! the very houses seem asleep;

And all that mighty heart is lying still!

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Earth has not anything to show more fair.