 ERE on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or bended knees ; But silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to Love compose, In humble trust mine eyelids close, With reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought...  Christabel: Kubla Khan, a Vision ; The Pains of Sleep - Page 61by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1816 - 64 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 828 pages
...with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drank the milk of Paradise. THE PAINS OF SLEEP. KRE llumined space, Though time's triumphant flight be shown, The truest index on its face Poi j But silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to love compose, In humble trust mine eyelids close, With... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1877 - 416 pages
...holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk* the milk of Paradise. THE PAINS OF SLEEP. T7RE on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use...reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought exprest, Only a sense of supplication ; A sense o'er all my soul imprest That I am weak, yet not unblest,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1877 - 408 pages
...holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk* the milk of Paradise. THE PAINS OF SLEEP. "C*RE on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use...reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought exprest, Only a sense of supplication ; A sense o'er all my soul imprest That I am weak, yet not unblest,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...•. May reach His throne of glory, Who is mercy, truth, and love. — БД. 3834. PRAYER. Silent ERE ale of joy and silentiy, by slow degrees. My spirit I to love compose, In humble trust my eyelids close, With reverential... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 pages
...yourselves, ye two beloved women ! 1BH-16. THE PAINS OF SLEEP.* ERE on my bed my limbs I lay, It halh not been my use to pray With moving lips or bended...reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought exprest, Only a sense of supplication ; A sense o'er all my soul imprest That I am weak, yet not unblest,... | |
 | James Booth - 1879 - 330 pages
...praise.' — WORDSWORTH. f Not very dissimilar is the spirit of those lines of Coleridge : — Ere on my bed my limbs I lay It hath not been my use to...supplication ; A sense o'er all my soul imprest That I am weak, yet not unblest, Since in me, round me, everywhere Eternal strength and wisdom are. persons... | |
 | 1879 - 238 pages
...life, and our death will be but a step on and up. — [Rev. Thomas Lathrop.] EVENING DEVOTION. Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use...supplication, A sense o'er all my soul imprest That I am weak, yet not unblest, Since in me, round me, everywhere, Eternal Strength and Wisdom are. kU^... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - 1880 - 340 pages
...4hat enabled him to pen the most beautiful description of silent prayer that ever was written : Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use...reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought express'd ! Only a sense of supplication, A sense o'er all my soul impress'd That I am weak, yet not... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1880 - 510 pages
...midnight humming, Murmur it to yourselves, ye two beloved women ! 18i4-i6. THE PAINS OF SLEEP." ERE on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use...lips or bended knees ; But silently, by slow degrees, * See Note. * •v>My spirit I to Love compose, In humble trust mine eye-lids close, With reverential... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1881 - 592 pages
...with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed And drank the milk of Paradise. THE PAINS OF SLEEP. EEE on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray With moving lips or bended kncee ; But silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to Love compose, In humble Trust mine eyelids elose,... | |
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