- Rest by Charlotte Fiske Bates
- "Rest", a poem by Mary Anne McMullen Ford
- Rest, a poem by Dora Greenwell
- Rest (Think of it—to have spent long months of worry), a poem by Martha Lavinia Hoffman
- Rest (O the toiling and the striving), a poem by Martha Lavinia Hoffman
- Rest by Lie Yukou
- Rest, a poem by Edith May
- Rest by Charlotte Mason ('A rest remaineth; is then rest so good?')
- Rest, a poem by Mary Newmarch Prescott
- "Rest", a poem by Adelaide Anne Procter
- Rest, a poem by Lillie Rosalie Ripley
- Rest, a poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti ('O Earth, lie heavily upon her eyes;')
- "Rest" in Littell's Living Age, 130 (1677), an unattributed poem, first published in All The Year Round ('Love, give me one of thy dear hands to hold,')
- "Rest" in Littell's Living Age, 143 (1852), an unattributed poem ('When thou art weary of the world, and leaning')