An Evening Prayer | English 4th | Tulip Series | Poem | Summary | Questions | Answers

 

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An Evening Prayer | Lesson 4 | Poem | Summary | Questions | Answers

 

 An Evening Prayer

 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 brothers both
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 last sleep I may
Awake to thy eternal day! Amen!
             Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Short Summary

The poem An Evening Prayer is a prayer by a child to God before going to sleep. The child asks God for protection, guidance, and blessings for family and friends. The poem teaches us to be thankful to God and pray with sincerity every day.
 

Reading is Fun

 
Question 1. Who is the speaker of the poem?
Answer: The speaker is a child who is praying to God before going to bed.
Question 2. What does the speaker want to pay his father?
Answer: He wants to pay his father respect and reverence.
Question 3. How many brothers does the speaker have? What does he pray for them?
Answer: He has two brothers. He prays that they stay away from evil and laziness and live happily.
Question 4. What does an innocent and grateful heart mean?
Answer: It means a pure heart that is thankful to God and free from bad thoughts.
 

Let’s Write

1. Read out the following words. What figure of speech is the underlined
word? Write in the space provided. (One is done for you.)
a) Bed, limbs, lay, me
Answer: Noun (given)
b) Prayer, preserve, grant, say
Answer: Verb
c) Health, God, mother, dear
Answer: Noun
d) Both, thoughts, evil, employ
Answer: Verb
e) Love, always, best, joy
Answer: Adjective
f) Innocent, eternal, heart, day
Answer: Adjective
g) Hope, grateful, year, doing
Answer: Adjective
h) To, may, and, awake
Answer: Conjunction
i) Parents, from, to, due
Answer: Preposition
k) Beauty, beautiful, beautifully, beautify
Answer: Adverb
l) To, oh, vow, alas
Answer: Interjection
m) Oh, ah, alas
Answer: Interjection
n) On, under, over
Answer: Preposition
o) Carefully, care, careful, caring
Answer: Adverb

 

2. Pick out the rhyming words in the poem. One is done for you. Also coin some of your own.
Answer:
lay – say
dear – year
too – due
heart – impart
may – day

 

 

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