Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, was born at St. Mary Ottery, Devonshire, 1772, educated at Christ's Hospital, London, and Jesus College, Cambridge, and died in 1834. His Child's Prayer at Evening, "Ere on my bed my limbs I lay," in Martineau's Hymns, 1840 and 1873, is dated 1808.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)… Go to person page >
Ere on my bed my limbs I lay. S. T. Coleridge, p. 242, i. This hymn appeared in the 1828 ed. of Coleridge's Sibylline Leave as "A Child's Evening Prayer," in 16 lines.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
Display Title: A Child's Evening PrayerFirst Line: Ere on my bed my limbs I layTune Title: [Ere on my bed my limbs I lay]Author: Samuel Taylor ColeridgeDate: 1910