A Child's Evening Prayer by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ere on my bed my limbs I lay,
God grant me grace my prayers to say:
O God! Preserve my mother dear
In strength and health for many a year;
And, O! preserve my father too,
And may I pay him reverence due;
And may I my best thoughts employ
To be my parents' hope and joy;
And O! Preserve my brother's too
From evil doings and from sloth,
And may we always love each other
Our friends, our Father, and our mother:
And still. O Lord, to me impart 
An innocent and grateful heart,
That after my great sleep I may 
Awake to thy eternal day! Amen

Speaker: Child to God 
Conflict: Man vs. God
No of lines in the poem used by the poet: 16

THEMES that you should emphasize if you are writing any exam:
Praying for the family.

• Faith
• Belief
• Religion
• Discipline
• Family
• Innocence
• Peace

Glossary:

1.  Sloth : Laziness
2. Reverence: Respect

           The poem 'A Child's Evening Prayer' was written in the age of romanticism when imagination and the quest for truth and beauty was in coniderance.