Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,

And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 3.

'T is with our judgments as our watches,—none

Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Criticism. Part i. Line 9.

Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,

And where care lodges, sleep will never lie.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act ii. Sc. 3.

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us,

All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852): Come o'er the Sea.

The clouds that gather round the setting sun

Do take a sober colouring from an eye

That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Ode. Intimations of Immortality. Stanza 11.

Why, let the stricken deer go weep,

The hart ungalled play;

For some must watch, while some must sleep:

So runs the world away.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

The sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844): The Soldier's Dream.

An idler is a watch that wants both hands,

As useless if it goes as if it stands.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Retirement. Line 681.

And if we do but watch the hour,

There never yet was human power

Which could evade, if unforgiven,

The patient search and vigil long

Of him who treasures up a wrong.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Mazeppa. Stanza 10.

The hum of either army stilly sounds,

That the fixed sentinels almost receive

The secret whispers of each other's watch;

Fire answers fire, and through their paly flames

Each battle sees the other's umbered face;

Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs

Piercing the night's dull ear, and from the tents

The armourers, accomplishing the knights,

With busy hammers closing rivets up,

Give dreadful note of preparation.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry V. Act iv. Prologue.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,

I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight

The selfsame way, with more advised watch,

To find the other forth; and by adventuring both,

I oft found both.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1.

'T is sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark

Bay deep-mouth'd welcome as we draw near home;

'T is sweet to know there is an eye will mark

Our coming, and look brighter when we come.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto i. Stanza 123.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind,

And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): The Deserted Village. Line 121.