| Higginson and Bigelow, comps. American Sonnets. 1891. | | | | Brook Song | | By James Herbert Morse (1841– ) |
| | | A MELLOW lullaby the waters sound, | |
| Of lively Shenandoah, Indian stream. | |
| Oft do I lie upon the banks and dream | |
| Myself away to some enchanted ground. | |
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| And many a bright day have I looked around— | 5 |
| Hearing a low, sweet, gurgling melody | |
| That rose upon the ear harmoniously— | |
| Thinking perhaps to see the face embrowned, | |
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| Dark eyes, and unlooped hair, and features wild, | |
| Of some fair Indian mother singing low | 10 |
| A cradle-song beside her sleeping child, | |
| Rocking her slender body to and fro,— | |
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| While in the leafy copse hard by, alone, | |
| Stood her brown hut of bark, its warrior gone. | | | | |
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