Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume I. Of Home: of Friendship. 1904. | | | | Poems of Home: I. About Children | | Japanese Lullaby | | Eugene Field (1850–1895) |
| | | SLEEP, little pigeon, and fold your wings,— | |
| Little blue pigeon with velvet eyes; | |
| Sleep to the singing of mother-bird swinging— | |
| Swinging the nest where her little one lies. | |
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| Away out yonder I see a star,— | 5 |
| Silvery star with a tinkling song; | |
| To the soft dew falling I hear it calling— | |
| Calling and tinkling the night along. | |
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| In through the window a moonbeam comes,— | |
| Little gold moonbeam with misty wings; | 10 |
| All silently creeping, it asks: “Is he sleeping— | |
| Sleeping and dreaming while mother sings?” | |
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| Up from the sea there floats a sob | |
| Of the waves that are breaking upon the shore, | |
| As though they were groaning in anguish, and moaning— | 15 |
| Bemoaning the ship that shall come no more. | |
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| But sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings,— | |
| Little blue pigeon with mournful eyes; | |
| Am I not singing?—see, I am swinging— | |
| Swinging the nest where my darling lies. | 20 | | | |
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