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Compact Anthology of World Literature, Part Four: The 17th and 18th Centuries: By Night When Others Soundly Slept

Compact Anthology of World Literature, Part Four: The 17th and 18th Centuries
By Night When Others Soundly Slept
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  1. Unit 1: Age of Reason
  2. Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière (1622-1673)
    1. Tartuffe
  3. Anne Bradstreet (c.1612-1672)
    1. Before the Birth of One of Her Children
    2. By Night When Others Soundly Slept
    3. Contemplations
    4. A Dialogue between Old England and New
  4. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
    1. Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave
  5. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
    1. A Modest Proposal
    2. Gulliver's Travels
  6. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
    1. Rape of the Lock
  7. Eliza Haywood (1693–1756)
    1. Fantomina
  8. François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778)
    1. Candide, or Optimism
  9. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
    1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
  10. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
    1. What Is Enlightenment?
  11. Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745-1797)
    1. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
  12. Unit 2: Near East and Asia
  13. Korean Pansori
    1. The Song of Chunhyang
  14. Evliya Çelebi (1611-1682)
    1. Book of Travels
  15. Cáo Xueqín (1715 or 1724 - 1763 or 1764)
    1. The Story of the Stone
  16. Matsuo Bashō (1644–1694)
    1. from The Narrow Road to the Deep North

By Night When Others Soundly Slept License: Public Domain Anne Bradstreet
1

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.

2

I sought him whom my Soul did Love,

With tears I sought him earnestly.

He bow'd his ear down from Above.

In vain I did not seek or cry.

3

My hungry Soul he fill'd with Good;

He in his Bottle put my tears,

My smarting wounds washt in his blood,

And banisht thence my Doubts and fears.

4

What to my Saviour shall I give

Who freely hath done this for me?

I'll serve him here whilst I shall live

And Loue him to Eternity.

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