Baby, baby, hush-a-bye, Must you be awake now? Sweet my lamb, come, close your eye, Sleep for mother's sake now. All the babies in the world Lie aslee but you now: Nigger-babies, brown and curled, In the sand dream too now. Baby mice are safe from harm In their downy holes now: Baby squirrels lie all warm In the hollow boles now. Baby buds are fast asleep Rocking on the trees now: Baby fishes, far and deep, Slumber in the seas now. All the baby stars above Dream in cloudy bed now: Mother moon, for all her love, Sleeping hides her head now. Baby, baby, hush-a-bye, Cradled on my breast now, Sweet my lamb, come, close your eye, Let your mother rest now. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE POLAR QUEST by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON THE MOUSE'S LULLABY by PALMER COX THE SLAVE'S DREAM by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW THE FIRST THANKSGIVING DAY [1621] by MARGARET JUNKIN PRESTON THE ENTHUSIAST, OR, THE LOVER OF NATURE by JOSEPH WARTON WHEN GOD WEARIED by WILLIAM ROSE BENET OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 6. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE SECOND EPIGRAM by THOMAS CAMPION |