By Night When Others Soundly Slept

by Anne Bradstreet — a poem card from Justes Mots

A spiritual poem describing the speaker's nighttime vigil seeking Jesus, expressing emotional hunger that is satisfied through divine comfort and healing. Bradstreet uses biblical imagery to convey the soul's longing for spiritual sustenance and God's merciful response. The poem celebrates faith as a source of emotional and spiritual restoration.

By night when others soundly slept
And hath at once both ease and Rest,
My waking eyes were open kept
And so to lie I found it best.

I sought him whom my Soul did Love,
With tears I sought him earnestly.
He bow'd his ear down from Above.…

Themes: gratitude · friendship · admiration · encouragement