Anne Bradstreet

Here you will find the Poem By Night when Others Soundly Slept of poet Anne Bradstreet

By Night when Others Soundly Slept

. By night when others soundly slept
 And hath at once both ease and Rest,
 My waking eyes were open kept
 And so to lie I found it best.

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 I sought him whom my Soul did Love,
 With tears I sought him earnestly.
 He bow'd his ear down from Above.
 In vain I did not seek or cry.
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 My hungry Soul he fill'd with Good;
 He in his Bottle put my tears,
 My smarting wounds washt in his blood,
 And banisht thence my Doubts and fears.

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 What to my Saviour shall I give
 Who freely hath done this for me?
 I'll serve him here whilst I shall live
 And Loue him to Eternity