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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
CRADLE SONG OF A SOLDIER'S WIFE, by T. T. BARKER First Line: Baby, sleep! Shadows creep Last Line: Singing by thy cradle-bed! | |||
Baby, sleep! shadows creep Down the hillsides dark and long. Slumber softly and thy dreaming May perchance have brighter seeming, For thy mother's cradle-song! Baby, sleep! low I weep, Lest I wake thee in my woe! Where the campfires gleam and quiver, Far away beside the river, Father thinks of thee, I know. Baby, sleep! angels keep Holy vigils o'er thy head! And thy mother's life seems sweeter, Griefs grow dim and joys completer, Singing by thy cradle-bed! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ESTRANGEMENT by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON GEORGE MOORE by MARIANNE MOORE A SPIRITUAL by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR AT A SOLEMN MUSIC by JOHN MILTON THE ATLANTIDES by HENRY DAVID THOREAU CHOEPHOROI: INVOCATION OF AGAMEMNON'S GHOST by AESCHYLUS ODE TO LUDLOW CASTLE by LUCY AIKEN CHARACTERS: SUSANNAH BARBAULD MARISSAL by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD |
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