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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LULLABY IN UNDERTONES, by FEODOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV Poet's Biography First Line: Running barefoot all the day Last Line: Bayu-bayusbkf-bayu. Alternate Author Name(s): Sologub, Fedor (fyodor) | |||
RUNNING barefoot all the day, Time for him to go to bed. We must wash the dust away, While he droops his little head. I will sing, and all for you, Bayu-bayusbkf-bayu. Who is tapping at the door? I can guess. It's only Sleep. Hair of flax and hand of wax, Not the little chimney-sweep. Softly now I sing for you, Bayusbkf-bayu. Where've you been, Sleep? Over hill. What to see? The Moon was bright. All alone? My sister too. Brought her with you? Not to-night. Gently now I sing to you, Bayusbkf-bayu. Drowsy Moon is weak and pale, Far above us in the sky. Someone at the window-sill Murmurs, murmurs, "Here am I." Very low I sing to you, Bayusbkf-bayu. Someone murmurs at the sill, Like the rustling of a bough, "I am very faint and ill. Help me, brother, help me now." Lower yet I sing to you, Bayusbkf-bayu. "I've been mowing all the day, I am tired, I am ill." Flits a shade across the pane, Hides below the window-sill. But I sing, and all for you, Bayu-bayusbkf-bayu. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DEVIL'S SWINGS by FEODOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV THE DRAGON by FEODOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV THE JAR by FEODOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV TO THE MEMORY OF INEZ MILHOLLAND by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON EPIGRAM: A BURNT SHIP by JOHN DONNE THE BEGGAR'S OPERA: SONG. AIR 16: OVER THE HILLS AND FAR AWAY by JOHN GAY REBEL MOTHER'S LULLABY by SHANE LESLIE THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 7. SUPREME SURRENDER by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI |
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