John Donne Quotes about Sleep

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Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

Sleep with clean hands, either kept clean all day by integrity or washed clean at night by repentance.

John Donne

Integrity, Sleep, Night

John Donne (1839). “The Works of John Donne, D.D., Dean of Saint Paul's, 1621-1631: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.218

One short sleep past, we wake eternally, And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.

John Donne

Death, Sleep, Past

Holy Sonnets no. 6 (1609)

Sleep is pain's easiest salve

John Donne

Pain, Sleep

John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.51, Oxford University Press, USA

Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.

John Donne

Sleep, Calling, May

Sleep is pain's easiest salve, and doth fulfil All offices of death, except to kill.

John Donne

Pain, Sleep, Office

"John Donne: The Major Works".

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul's delivery.

John Donne

Sleep, Men, Soul

c.1610-1615 Holy Sonnets, no.10.