Now I lay me down to sleep

by Emily Dickinson · (no date)
Published 01/07/1880

Versions of

Now I lay me down to sleep

      include:


"

As now I lay me down to sleep

" in

The Church Manual

      by

Henry Boyer Brumbaugh

      (1916)


"

Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

" in

The Child's Own Music Book

      (ed.) by

Albert Ernest Wier

      (1918)


"

Now I lay me down to sleep

", quoted in full in chapter 1 of

Women Wanted

      by

Mabel Potter Daggett

      (1918)


"

Now I lay me down to sleep

", quoted in full in chapter 22 of

A Daughter of the Samurai

      by

Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto

      (1925)


See also


"

Now I lay thee down to Sleep—

" by

Emily Dickinson

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