A Child's Evening Prayer by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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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. 

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