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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SLEEP SONG OF MOTHERHOOD, by RAY CLARKE ROSE
First Line: Little one - little one - child of my breast
Last Line: My crooning sleep song to thee, rapturous thing!
Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood
First Line: Little one - little one - child of my breast
Last Line: My crooning sleep song to thee, rapturous thing!
Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood
Little one—little one—child of my breast,
First-born of thy father, drowse to thy rest.
Over the trail of the rose-tinted west
Steals the red sun to its under-world nest.
Warm on my heart is the pulse of thy love;
Soft on my cheek is the breathing thereof—
Tight must I hold thee till dawning of day,
Else the Night Watcher might bear thee away.
Little one, sleep, or the night will repine
While the Dream Singers wait for this wee one of mine.
E'en now a low lullaby calls from the shade,
And bids thee, my precious one, be not afraid.
Hush!—list to the song of the stars as they cling
In the arms of the night where they drowsily swing;
And twinkle their love to thee now, as I sing
My crooning sleep song to thee, rapturous Thing!
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