The cool kindliness of sheets, that soon smooth away trouble and the rough male kiss of blankets.

Brooke’s image turns the bed into a small, restorative refuge: sheets are “cool” and “kindly,” offering immediate physical comfort, while blankets are personified with a “rough male kiss,” suggesting a more forceful, enveloping warmth. The phrase “soon smooth away trouble” implies sleep’s power to erase or at least soften anxiety and emotional abrasion. The sensuality is domestic rather than erotic in a narrow sense—an intimacy with ordinary materials that become agents of consolation. The gendered contrast (sheets gentle, blankets rough) heightens the tactile realism and hints at a desire for both tenderness and protective pressure in the face of distress.