
St. 9
Rugby Chapel (1867)
Darkness, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
St. 9
Rugby Chapel (1867)
“Jesus, give the weary
Calm and sweet repose.
With Thy tend'rest blessing
May our eyelids close.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 614.
Song 35: "A Cradle Hymn".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 99.