 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 Upon our own delightful bed ! Night is the time for dreams, The gay romance of life ; When truth...  The Pelican Island, and Other Poems - Side 108af James Montgomery - 1827 - 264 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | 1878 - 446 sider
...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...repose, Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head Upon our own delightful bed. 116 JAMES MONTGOMERY. Night is the time to weep, To wet, with unseen tears,... | |
 | 1872 - 692 sider
...before Thy throne to lie, And ever gaac em Thee ! is the time for rest : How sweet, when labours close, gather round an aching breast The curtain of repose, Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head Upon our own delightful bed. Night is the time for dreams : The gay romance of life, When truth that... | |
 | 1872 - 710 sider
...Events of, Night is the time for rest ; How sweet, when labors close, To gather round an aching heart cry, we sing and we sigh. And Ufe will have wintry weather ! So Upon our own delightful bed. Night is the time for dreams, The gay romance of life ; When truth that... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1873 - 782 sider
...them both when He rose to the skies. Herbert Xiloides.— Born 1798, Died 1817. 1384.— NIGHT. Night , And send it in a torrent down the vale. Exposed,...Through all the sea of harvest rolling round, The Upon our own delightful bed ! Night is the time for dreams ; The gay romance of life, When truth that... | |
 | Octavius Winslow - 1873 - 248 sider
...very hour to die I To soar from earth, and find all fears Lost in thy light— Eternity 1 " " Night is the time for rest : How sweet, when labours close,...repose, Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head Upon our own delightful bed ! " Night is the time for dreams, The gay romance of life, When truth that... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 306 sider
...calm was the immediate consequence. — Ridgway's '•'Memorials of Westminster Abbey." NIGHT. NIGHT is the time for rest. How sweet when labours close,...repose; Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head Upon our own delightful bed ! Night is the time for dreams; The gay romance of life, When truth that... | |
 | English poetry - 1873 - 390 sider
...spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. NIGHT. BY MONTGOMERY. NIGHT is the time for rest ; — How sweet ! when labours...repose ; Stretch the tired limbs and lay the head Upon our own delightful bed ! Night is the time for dreams ; — The gay romance of life, When truth... | |
 | Alfonzo Gardiner - 1873 - 72 sider
...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 close....repose, Stretch the tired limbs, and lay the head Upon our own de-light-ful bed. Night is the time for death — When all around is peace, Calm-ly to... | |
 | Alfonzo Gardiner - 1874 - 72 sider
...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*... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 sider
...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...limbs, and lay the head Down on our own delightful bed ! JAMES MONTGOMERY. Fly not yet : 'tis just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns... | |
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