NIGHT is the time for rest ; How sweet, when labours close, To gather round an aching breast The curtain of repose, Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head Down on our own delightful bed... The Edinburgh Annual Register - Page 440edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...alone ; this, this is solitude ! BYROH. NIGHT. NIGHT is the time for rest : How sweet, when labors look you there ! look, how it steals away ! My father, in his habit as he lived ! Look, where he goes, Down on our own delightful bed ! Night is the time for dreams : The gay romance of life, When truth... | |
| 1878 - 446 pages
...is full of peace, and strangely contrasts with the toilful life of its author. ' Night is the lime for rest ; How sweet, when labours close, To gather...limbs, and lay the head Upon our own delightful bed. 116 JAMES MONTGOMERY. Night is the time to weep, To wet, with unseen tears, Those graves of memory... | |
| Alfonzo Gardiner - 1873 - 72 pages
...so clear no one would stand bail for him. THIRD WEEK. Lesson II.— Learn for Monday Morning. NIGHT. Night is the time for rest : How sweet, when la-bours...Upon our own de-light-ful bed. Night is the time for death — When all around is peace, Calm-ly to yield the weary breath, From ain and suf-fering cease... | |
| Alfonzo Gardiner - 1874 - 72 pages
...; Think of heaven's bliss,' and give the sign To parting friends. Such death be mine ! Montgomery. Night is the time for rest : How sweet, when la-bours close. To gather round an ach-ing breasti The curtain of repose;1 Stretch the tired limbs, and lay tho head Upon our own de-light-fu.l*... | |
| Sourindro Mohun Tagore - English poetry - 1875 - 184 pages
...murmurs — they care not for you, Xor what ye are flying, nor what ye pursue ! WORDSWORTH. 99 NIGHT. NIGHT is the time for rest ; — How sweet when labours...repose, Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head Down on our own delightful bed ! . (22.) Bivdsa — Madhydmana. u 1 ' , '1 EDDC -Night is the time... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1875 - 794 pages
...the empty-vaulted night, At ev'ry fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled. MILTON. Night is the time for rest ; — How sweet, when labours...repose, Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head Down on our own delightful bed ! JAMES MONTGOMERY. Fly not yet : 'tis just the hour When pleasure,... | |
| Mary Carpenter - Meditations - 1875 - 370 pages
...that He is present as our upholder and guardian. "God our Maker, giveth songs in the night." NIOHT is the time for rest: How sweet, when labours close, To gather round an aching breast The curtains of repose; Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head Upon our own delightful hed ! MONDAY... | |
| James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1875 - 622 pages
...round an aehing breast The eurtain of repose, — Streteh the tired limbs, and lay the head Down on our own delightful bed ! Night is the time for dreams! — The gay romanee of life, When truth that is, and truth that seem?. Mix in fantastie strife: Ah ! visions less... | |
| James Grant Wilson - English poetry - 1876 - 604 pages
...nation, Negroes to their rights restored; Slaves no longer, Freemen,— freemen of the Lord. NIGHT. Night is the time for rest ! — How sweet, when labours...repose, — Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head Down on our own delightful bed ! Night is the time for dreams! — The gay romance of life, When truth... | |
| William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1876 - 599 pages
...Beneath its jagged gulf. PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY. NIGHT. NIGHT is the time for rest : How sweet, when labors close, To gather round an aching breast The curtain...repose, Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head 376 377 Night is the time for dreams : The gay romance of life, "When truth that is, and truth that... | |
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