Born Quote by Samuel Daniel

Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting…

— Samuel Daniel

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

— John Fletcher

I love the silent hour of night, for blissful dreams may then arise, revealing to my charmed sight what may not bless my waking…

— Anne Bronte

Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter…

— William Drummond

Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure,…

— Bram Stoker

“The widower reviewed his past in a sunless light which was intensified by the greyness of the November twilight, whilst the bells subtly impregnated…

— Georges Rodenbach

The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes.

— John Keble

Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.

— Michael Drayton

Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts…

— Ovid

“Of all the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the…

— John Banville

Night, having Sleep, the brother of Death.

— Hesiod

“O night, O sweetest time, though black of hue, with peace you force all the restless work to end; those who exalt you see…

— Michelangelo Buonarroti