In the last episode of his constantly chequered and too voluptuous career, we have the waking of Sardanapalus realized in the transmutation of the fantastical Harold into a practical strategist, financier, and soldier.

Is this broad waking in a winter's night?

Her waking to consciousness is like that of one who has been drowned, and who finds the return to life agony.

In that dim world there flows no cooling stream, No Lethe for the guilty and the fever'd, There is no answer to their parching scream, From hope and mercy they are ever sever'd, There is no waking from their spectral dream.

It seems to link me with some incredibly remote and golden morning, and with a child in a cradle waking for the first time to light and sound and consciousness.

And with my waking into that Future, I waked not to ignorance; but to a full knowledge of those things which lit the Night Land; even as a man wakes from sleep each morning, and knows immediately he wakes, the names and knowledge of the Time which has bred him, and in which he lives.

The hours of our last wassail, the bowl of velvet, and my waking by the Pool of Psyche with the mahu and the Dummy beside me, were painted on my brain.

She would be glad to see it, he knew, but alas for Kitthey found sweet Nell in the sleep that knows no waking on this our earth.

Mania, Jacchinus, Arculanus on Rhasis, Guianerius and Mercurialis, reckon up this overmuch waking as a principal cause.