“Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe;
But ’tis the happy that have called thee so.”
Robert Southey (1774–1843) British poet
Canto XV, st. 11.
The Curse of Kehama (1810)
“O eyes long laid in happy sleep!
O happy sleep, that lightly fled!
O happy kiss, that woke thy sleep!
O love, thy kiss would wake the dead!”
The Departure, st. 3
The Day-Dream (1842)
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“O happy earth,
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread!”
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Canto 10, stanza 9
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“Every Thing has its Vermin O Spectre of the Sleeping Dead!”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Frontiespiece, plate 1, line 11 (as it seen on the additional plate, Fitzwilliam Museum).
1800s, Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Foresters
Song, Act I, Scene ii
The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion (1892)
Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer
"Sleep (A Woman Speaks)", line 1, p. 98.
The Monitions of the Unseen (1871)
“O Mirth and Innocence! O milk and water!
Ye happy mixtures of more happy days.”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Stanza 80.
Beppo (1818)
Frederick William Faber (1814–1863) British hymn writer and theologian
Paradise.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Aubrey Thomas de Vere (1814–1902) Irish poet and critic
Song. Softly, O Midnight Hours; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 721.
