Sleep My Little One A Collection Of Sleep Dream Poems

Silver sails all out of the west Under the silver moon: Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep. - Tennyson Sleep, My Little One brings together 59 carefully selected poems about sleep and dreams. This gorgeous collection includes the most tender and calming poetry classics from Tennyson's "Sweet and Low" to Blake's "Cradle Song" from Browning's "Sleeping and Watching" to Dickinson's "The Moon". These poems encompass the moon, the night, sleeping and dreaming in an anthology of verse, lullabies and songs. It will spark imagination and encourage curiosity in young minds. Whether enjoyed alone or read aloud to little ones, this treasury of poets is sure to soothe to sleep and invite sweet dreams. This beautiful book will make the perfect keepsake for new babies and new parents or a treasured gift for little ones and those now grown.

Poets have always drawn inspiration from the wild fancies of dream life. We spend a third of our lives asleep, and throughout history our nocturnal visions have engaged the interpretive talents of our greatest writers. This treasury of poets–Sidney, Donne, Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, Whitman, Rilke, Plath, Graves, Roethke, Bishop, Moore, Updike, and many more–encompasses lullabies, invocations, aubades, songs, epigrams, and stories, in every conceivable mood from the broadly comic to the tragic. It includes poems about daydreams and nightmares, about falling asleep and about waking up, about insomnia, night thoughts, monsters of the dark, twilight, dawn, and the rebirth of morning. From Auden’s “Lullaby” to Rossetti’s “Nuptial Sleep,” from Salvatore Quasimodo’s “Insomnia” to Thom Gunn’s “Annihilation of Nothing,”Poems of Sleep and Dreamsevokes the whole haunting, magical spectrum of sleep and dream.

The following book is a collection of poems written by Alfred Noyes, best remembered today for his novels, including 'The Last Man', which may have inspired George Orwell's 1984. The current volume also includes some of his most celebrated poems, such as 'The Flower of Old Japan' and 'The Highwayman'.

"A little book of rhymes and lullabies"--Cover.

American and English poems for young children about the end of the day, bedtime, and sleep.

In this enchanting and comprehensive collection, the lullabies we all were rocked to sleep with, such as “Rock-a-Bye Baby” and “Hush Little Baby, Don’t You Cry,” mingle with traditional lullabies from around the world. Here are beautiful lyrics to sing or read to little ones, from Shakespeare’s lullaby for the fairy queen, Titania, to Brahms’s “Lullaby”; and from Gershwin’s “Summertime” to Langston Hughes’s lovely lullaby for a “night black baby.” Here, too, are poems for children that range from tender to nonsensical, from quiet to raucous–from Walter de la Mare to T. S. Eliot to Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, and Ogden Nash. Whether the intent is to soothe or to amuse, there’s something here for every mood, every child, and the child in every adult. A delightful, gift-perfect collection.

An exquisitely illustrated collection of classic lullabies and dreamy night time poems Soothing lullabies, favourite night-time nursery rhymes, and night songs from around the world combine with irresistible illustrations to create the perfect gift for anyone who cares for babies and very young children. * Varied and engaging selection of classic lullabies and well-loved bedtime songs all chosen by million selling anthologist John Foster * Picture book format and approach make this book immediately appealing and accessible to very young children

Do you know how animals sleep? Otters fall asleep while holding hands; zebra finches practise their songs while dreaming; dolphins keep one half of their brain awake . . . Beautiful poems about sleeping animals are interspersed with fascinating facts and beautiful illustrations - making this the perfect bedtime book!

This edition includes all of Dowson's known poems. It describes in detail the contents of his manuscript notebook and re-transcribes the poems from it; it includes his two published volumes, Verses (1896) and Decorations (1899), his verse play The Pierrot of the Minute, the discrete independent parts of his verse translation of Voltaire, and a few uncollected pieces. All have been checked where possible against the original manuscripts and annotated to provide explanation and context.