 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
 | 1866 - 394 pages
...at quiet midnight humming, Murmur it to yourselves, ye two beloved women ! THE PAINS OF SLEEP* ERE 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 - 1869 - 204 pages
...hoar, Is gone : and now the Wedding- Guest Turned from the bridegroom's door. THE PAINS OF SLEEP. IRE 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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1869 - 380 pages
...shall indulge ourselves in extracting the whole of it. It is entitled " The Pains of Sleep." " Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use...eye-lids close, With reverential resignation, No wish conceiv'd, no thought expressM I Only a sense of supplication, A sense, o'er all my soul imprest, That... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1869 - 366 pages
...shall indulge ourselves in extracting the whole of it. It is entitled " The Pains of Sleep." " Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use...eye-lids close, With reverential resignation, No wish conceiv'd, no thought express'd / Only a sense of supplication, A sense, o'er all my soul imprest,... | |
 | Joseph Grant, Robert Nicoll - Scottish poetry - 1869 - 240 pages
...Jacob, as he lookecj after him, " gin I dinna fley't awa' t'ye wi' a vengeance!'' CHAPTER III. Ere on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use to pray. « * * * But yesternight I pray'd aloud In anguish and in agony ; Upstarting from the fiendish crowd... | |
 | 1871 - 884 pages
...hands in the divine Presence. " My spirit I love to compose, In humble trust my eyelids close VVtth reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought expressed. Only a sense of supplication." Joubert says the best prayers are those that have nothing distinct, and which thus partake of simple... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1873 - 472 pages
...with holy dread, For he on honey-dew halh fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. THE PAINS OF SLEEP. ERE on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use...resignation, No wish conceived, no thought expressed I Only a sense of supplication, A sense o'er all my soul impressed That I am weak, yet not unblest,... | |
 | James Booth - 1873 - 268 pages
...praise.' — WORDSWORTH. t 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 pray With moving lips or bonded knees ; But silently, by slow degrees, jNIy spirit I to love compose, In humble trust mine eyelids... | |
 | Mary Wilder Tileston - American poetry - 1874 - 200 pages
...my spirit seek, O God, but Thee. ANON. Found in a chest, in an English cottageEVENING DEVOTION. T^RE on my bed my limbs I lay, -*— ' It hath not been...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. SAMURL... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 470 pages
...with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise. THE PAINS OF SLEEP. ERE on my bed my limbs I lay, It hath not been my use...a sense of supplication, A sense o'er all my soul impressed That I am weak, yet not unblest, Since in me, round me, every where Eternal Strength and... | |
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