 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...  The Westminster Review - Page 151829Full view - About this book
 | 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...silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to Love compose, In humble Trust mine eye-lids close, With reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought expressed... | |
 | 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...silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to Love compose, In humble trust mine eyelids close, With reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought expressed... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - English poetry - 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 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...silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to Love compose, In humble trust mine eye-lids close, With reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought exprest,... | |
 | 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...silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to Love compose, In humble trust mine eye-lids close, With reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought exprest,... | |
 | Robert Aitkin Bertram - 1877 - 766 pages
...above, •. May reach His throne of glory, Who is mercy, truth, and love. — БД. 3834. PRAYER. Silent he tale 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...silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to Love compose, In humble trust mine eyelids close, With reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought exprest,... | |
 | Religion - 1879 - 238 pages
...eternal 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...silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to love compose, In humble trust mine eyelids close, With reverential resignation No wish conceived, no thought expressed... | |
 | James Booth - 1879 - 330 pages
...and 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...silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to love compose, In humble trust mine eyelids close With reverential resignation ; No wish conceived, no thought expressed,... | |
 | John Wesley Hanson - Universalism - 1880 - 340 pages
...thoughts 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...silently, by slow degrees, My spirit I to love compose, In humble trust mine eyelids close, With reverential resignation, No wish conceived, no thought express'd... | |
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