 | Arturo Farinelli - 1916 - 486 pages
...try, By sleeping, what it is to die I And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe 'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with thee. And thus assur'd, behold I lie Secureley, or to wake or die. These are my drawsy days; in vain I do now wake... | |
 | Arturo Farinelli - 1916 - 484 pages
...Wilken, London, 1833, II, 113): Sleep is a death ; — O make me try, By sleeping, what it is lo die I And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. • Howe'er I resi, greal God, lei me Awake again at lasi with thee. And thus assur'd, behold I Ile... | |
 | Ernest Trafford Campagnac - Religion - 1918 - 152 pages
...holy thought ; And with as active vigour run My course, as doth the nimble Sun. Sleep is a death ; O make me try. By sleeping, what it is to die ; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with thee; And thus assured, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | Frederick Parkes Weber - 1918 - 850 pages
...hymn from Sir Thomas Browne's Rcligio Medici (Part ii., section 12) : — " Sleep is a death ; oh, make me try By sleeping what it is to die, And as gently lay my head On my grave as now my bed 1 " In this way, in poetical and devotional writings a memento mori significance may be attached not... | |
 | Ernest Trafford Campagnac - Religion - 1918 - 152 pages
...And with as active vigour run My course, as doth the nimble Sun. Sleep is a death; O make me try,By sleeping, what it is to die; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with thee; And thus assured, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Browne - Christian ethics - 1922 - 310 pages
...holy thought; And with as active vigour run My course, as doth the nimble Sun. Sleep is a death; O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die : And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howere I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with thee. And thus assur'd, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | Hugh I'Anson Fausset - English poetry - 1923 - 306 pages
...in which they do honour to the dead. As in Sir Thomas Browne's Evening Hymn : Sleep is death. Oh ! make me try By sleeping what it is to die. And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. And: Oh! come that hour when I shall never Sleep again, but wake for ever. Or again, in Cowley's: Then... | |
 | Gordon Crosse - Religious poetry, English - 1924 - 288 pages
...holy thought ; And with as active vigour run My course as doth the nimble sun. Sleep is a death ; O make me try, By sleeping, what it is to die : And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. Howe'er I rest, great God, let me Awake again at last with Thee. And thus assured, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...holy thought. And with as active vigour run My course, as doth the nimble Sun. Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping what it is to die. And as gently lay my head On my Grave, as now my bed. How ere I rest, great God let me Awake again at last with thee. And. thus assured, behold I lie Securely,... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...holy thought. And with as active vigour run My course, as doth the nimble Sun. Sleep is a death, O make me try, By sleeping what it is to die. ~ ; , And as gently lay my bead On my Grave, as now my bed. How ere I rest, great God let me Awake again at last with thee. And... | |
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Sleep is a death, O make me try. By sleeping, what it is to die ; And as gently lay my head On my grave, as now my bed. 
