Lullabies / Lucy Eddy

Lullabies  (1918)  by Lucy Eddy

from Poetry, February 1918

Lullabies

Sleeping child, attributed to H.C.P. MacGoun. Photo by Jaimelart, 2011. Licensed under Creative Commoons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

          I

SLEEP, my little sun-god,
  Dream of gold and blue!
Skies that shone with song-light
  Swing their bells of dew,
Tapping silver music
  Soft and low for you.
Listen! they are singing,
  “Little one, dream true.”
 

          II

Hush! the brooding wood-notes
  Fainter grow;
Violet are the vineyards,
  Wine-winds blow;
Purple music hymning
  Deep and low.

This poem is in the public domain