"Come, Sleep, and kiss my eyelids down; In thy twinklings of oblivion, let me forget."  From The Witchery of Sleep by Willard Moyer, 1903.

"Pretty soon he told himself, he would get up and find something to eat, and promptly fell asleep, the sound of music and voices in his ear."  From Improvement Era, 1939.

"Sleep.  That's what we all need.  If we just knew where to find it.  Our minds are so troubled, but we don't quite know why."  From Dark Shadows episode 1098.

Sleep well.  From Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune Telling by Charles Godfrey Leland.

"But when sleep does come, a strange mist seeps in through the open window."  From Forbidden Worlds, number 20.

From Dark Shadows episode 1146.

"(Sleep) Learning without apparatus."  By Colin Peters.  From Coraddi, 1991.

"Since sleep is the twin of death, death is the twin of life. Sleep in this mirror until you are awakened."  From Dark Shadows episode 871.

Reblog if you wish your own childhood textbooks had featured the pony named Dark that takes us into the unconscious.  From the Elson-Runkel Primer, 1914.

"My head hits the pillow like an anvil in a world without gravity."  From William and Mary's 1982 yearbook.

See Strange Prayers for Strange Times.

"How sleep comes is riddle of conflicting theories."  From Popular Mechanics, 1934.

Here is revealed how our own sleep is induced.  From Cosmopolitan, 1904.

The Dustman from Danish Fairy Tales and Legends by Hans Christian Andersen, 1897.

A Corner in Sleep and Other Impossibilities by E. E. Kellett, 1900.

"Sleep is a slow motion practical joke." —Gary Barwin