In Literature
- In William Shakespeare's play Henry V, after the death of Sir John Falstaff, Mistress Quickly asserts confidently that "He's in Arthur's bosom, if ever man went to Arthur's bosom." Quickly, an uneducated innkeeper, has presumably confused the Christian idea of Abraham's bosom with the legend of King Arthur.
- In William Wordsworth's poem "It is a beauteous evening, calm and free", Wordsworth writes about a walk on the beach with his daughter Caroline, who lived in France with her mother and whom he saw only rarely. A line from the poem reads, "Thou liest in Abraham's bosom all the year" - a double meaning, in that to Wordsworth she is righteous and blissful, and also that she "liest" in her father's heart all the time, even when they are apart.
- For the Paul Green play, see In Abraham's Bosom.
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