“Oh bed! oh bed! delicious bed!
That heaven upon earth to the weary head.”

—  Thomas Hood

Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Dream http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_4.htm#146, st. 7.
1840s

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British writer 1799–1845

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