English Poetry. John Bannister Tabb. Sleep. Джон Банистер Табб.

John Bannister Tabb (Джон Банистер Табб)

Sleep

  When he is a little chap,
      We call him Nap.
  When he somewhat older grows,
      We call him Doze.
  When his age by hours we number,
      We call him Slumber.

John Bannister Tabb’s other poems:

1. Chimney Stacks
2. The Bobolink
3. The Bee and the Blossoms
4. The Honey-Bee
5. The Pleiads

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

Abraham Cowley (Абрахам Каули) Sleep (“In vain, thou drowsy God! I thee invoke”)

Isaac Rosenberg (Айзек Розенберг) Sleep (“Godhead’s lip hangs”)

Henry Longfellow (Генри Лонгфелло) Sleep (“Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful sound”)

James Johnson (Джеймс Джонсон) Sleep (“O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man”)

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