English Poetry. Horace Smith. Lullaby. Горацио Смит.

Horace Smith (Горацио Смит)

Lullaby

Sleep, little baby, sleep, love, sleep!
  Evening is coming, and night is nigh;
Under the lattice the little birds cheep,
  All will be sleeping by and by.
      Sleep, little baby, sleep.

Sleep, little baby, sleep, love, sleep!
  Darkness is creeping along the sky;
Stars at the casement glimmer and peep,
  Slowly the moon comes sailing by.
      Sleep, little baby, sleep.

Sleep, little baby, sleep, love, sleep!
  Sleep till the dawning has dappled the sky;
Under the lattice the little birds cheep,
  All will be waking by and by.
      Sleep, little baby, sleep.

Horace Smith’s other poems:

1. Abbotsford
2. My Boating Song
3. To a Scientific Friend
4. Effusion by a Cigar Smoker
5. On Circuit

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Clarence Dennis (Кларенс Деннис) Lullaby (“You are much too big to dandle”)

Richard Rowlands (Ричард Роулендз) Lullaby (“UPON my lap my sovereign sits”)

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