Careful Words

slumber (n.)

slumber (v.)

  Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

Old Testament: Proverbs vi. 10; xxiv. 33.

'T is the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain,

"You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again."

Isaac Watts (1674-1748): The Sluggard.

Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter;

Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber:

Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies,

Which busy care draws in the brains of men;

Therefore thou sleep'st so sound.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act ii. Sc. 1.

Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber!

Holy angels guard thy bed!

Heavenly blessings without number

Gently falling on thy head.

Isaac Watts (1674-1748): A Cradle Hymn.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,

Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

Sir William Jones (1746-1794):

  I will not give sleep to mine eyes, or slumber to mine eyelids.

Old Testament: Psalm cxxxii. 4; Proverbs vi. 4.