“No rest is to be found
But in Thy blessèd love;
O let my wish be crowned
And send it from above.”
John Byrom (1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
"The Desponding Soul's Wish"
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)
Mary Morison, st. 1 (1793)
“No rest is to be found
But in Thy blessèd love;
O let my wish be crowned
And send it from above.”
John Byrom (1692–1763) Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
"The Desponding Soul's Wish"
Miscellaneous Poems (1773)
“Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how.”
Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice
Source: Pride and Prejudice
Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru and poet
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti
“O for a single hour of that Dundee,
Who on that day the word of onset gave!”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
Sonnet. In the Pass of Killicranky, l. 11 (1803).
Variant: O for a single hour of that Dundee,
Who on that day the word of onset gave!