Sleep, My Little One - A Collection of Sleep & Dream Poems

Various

Description

Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon:
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.
- Tennyson
Sleep, My Little One brings together 59 carefully selected poems about sleep and dreams.
This gorgeous collection includes the most tender and calming poetry classics from Tennyson's "Sweet and Low" to Blake's "Cradle Song" from Browning's "Sleeping and Watching" to Dickinson's "The Moon".
These poems encompass the moon, the night, sleeping and dreaming in an anthology of verse, lullabies and songs. It will spark imagination and encourage curiosity in young minds.
Whether enjoyed alone or read aloud to little ones, this treasury of poets is sure to soothe to sleep and invite sweet dreams.
This beautiful book will make the perfect keepsake for new babies and new parents or a treasured gift for little ones and those now grown.

Sujets

• New Baby
• Juvenile Nonfiction
• General officer
• Poetry
• General
• Family

Informations

• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 20 octobre 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528792752
• Langue: English

Extrait

Sleep, My Little One
A COLLECTION OF SLEEP & DREAM POEMS
By
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Contents
DESI RE IN SPRING
By Fran cis Ledwidge
SWEET AND LOW, S WEET AND LOW
By Alfred L ord Tennyson
CRADLE SONG
By W illiam Blake
B ED-TIME SONG
By Emi lie Poulsson
THE MOON
By Emi ly Dickinson
A DREAM
By Edg ar Allan Poe
SLEEP SONG
By Joyce Kilmer
A BALLAD O F DREAMLAND
By Algernon Charl es Swinburne
THE COTTAGER AND HER INFANT
By Doroth y Wordsworth
THE H ARVEST MOON
By Henry Wadswort h Longfellow
S EAL LULLABY
By Rud yard Kipling
HOL Y INNOCENTS
By Christi na Rossetti
A DREAM
By Edith Willis Linn Forbes
THE ROAD TO SLUMBERLAND
By Ma ry Dow Brine
LULLABY
By Josiah Gil bert Holland
THE LAND OF NOD
By Robert Lou is Stevenson
LULLABY OF AN I NFANT CHIEF
By Sir Walter Scott
WYNKEN, BLYNK EN, AND NOD
By Eugene Field
AT NIGHT
By Al ice Meynell
THE WALRUS AND TH E CARPENTER
By L ewis Carroll
GOOD NIGHT
By Jane an d Ann Taylor
MINNIE AND WINNIE
By Alfred Lo rd Tennyson
A GOOD NIGHT
By Fra ncis Quarles
SLEEP
By Emi ly Dickinson
SLEEP , BABY MINE
By William W ilsey Martin
A DREAM WIT HIN A DREAM
By Edg ar Allan Poe
THE MOON
By Robert Loui s Stevenson
LULLABY FOR A BABY FAIRY
By Joyce Kilmer
SLEEPING A ND WATCHING
By Elizabeth Barr ett Browning
ON THE E VE OF SLEEP
By Edith Ma tilda Thomas
A CRADLE HYMN
By Isaac Watts
SEA S LUMBER SONG
B y Roden Noel
THE BEAUTIFUL LAND OF NOD
By Ella Wh eeler Wilcox
TO SLEEP
By M ark Akenside
ADDRESS TO A CHILD
By Doroth y Wordsworth
THE GARDEN WASN 'T A GARDEN
By A nnette Wynne
JAPAN ESE LULLABY
By Eugene Field
THE GARDEN OF PROSERPINE
By Algernon Charl es Swinburne
THE SE A OF SUNSET
By Emi ly Dickinson
TO AN INFA NT SLEEPING
By Richard Che nevix Trench
CRADLE SONG
By Victor Hugo
SAY, LI TTLE MAIDEN
By Arthur Upson
MAT ER AMABILIS
By Emma Lazarus
LULLABY
By G erald Massey
TO SLEEP
By Char lotte Smith
A LULLABY
By J ames Shirley
S LUMBER-SONG
by John B. Tabb
CRADLE SONG
B y Alice Cary
MY BE D IS A BOAT
By Robert Lou is Stevenson
TO SLEEP
By Willia m Wordsworth
THE DAY T O THE NIGHT
By A lice Meynell
SLEEP NOW
By James Joyce
LULLABY
By Florence Earle Coates
A HYMN TO THE EVENING
By Phil lis Wheatley
SLEEP SWEET
By Ellen M. Hunt ington Gates
GOOD-NIGHT
By Paul Lau rence Dunbar
GOL DEN SLUMBERS
By T homas Dekker
TO SLEEP
By John Keats
LULLABY
By Edith Nesbit
BIBLIOGRAPHY


Sleep, My Little One
A COLLECTION OF SLEEP & DREAM POEMS


DESIRE IN SPRING
By Francis Ledwidge
I love the cradle songs the mothers sing In lonely places when the twilight drops, The slow endearing melodies that bring Sleep to the weeping lids; and, when she stops, I love the roadside birds upon the tops Of dusty hedges in a world of Spring.
And when the sunny rain drips from the edge Of midday wind, and meadows lean one way, And a long whisper passes thro' the sedge, Beside the broken water let me stay, While these old airs upon my memory play, And silent changes colour up the hedge.


SWEET AND LOW, SWEET AN