1835, William Wordsworth, “Picture of Daniel in the Lion’s Den, at Hamilton Place” in Yarrow Revisited, and Other Poems, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, p. 25,
Yet is the Prophet calm, nor would the cave
Daunt him—if his Companions, now be-drowsed
Yawning and listless, were by hunger roused:
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He could not think it painting, which had been the means of raising him out of sleep to the present happy waking. Nor was it the lack of public recognition which had bedrowsed him, since he had never fairly sought it […]
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My two New England tales, “Ethan Frome” and “Summer”, were the result of explorations among villages still bedrowsed in a decaying rural existence […]
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1998, Aaron Kramer (editor and translator), The Last Lullaby: Poetry from the Holocaust, Syracuse University Press, p. 33,
A lullaby should cradle, quiet, calm, and bedrowse the child […]
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