Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes About Sleep
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Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing, beloved from pole to pole, to Mary Queen the praise be given! She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven, that slid into my soul.
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A noise like of a hidden brook In the leafy month of June, That to the sleeping woods all night Singeth a quiet tune.
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What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?
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Oh sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole.
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May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
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God grant me grace my prayers to say: O God! preserve my mother dear, In strength and health for many a year; And O! preserve my father too, And may I pay him reverence due; And may I my best thoughts employ To be my parents' hope and joy; And O! preserve my brothers both From evil doings, and from sloth, And may we always love each other, Our friends, our father, and our mother, And still, O Lord, to me impart An innocent and grateful heart, That after my last sleep I may Awake to thy eternal day! Amen.
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For she belike hath drunken deep Of all the blessedness of sleep.
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O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.
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