Lullabies and Poems for Children HRD Edition

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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.

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ForewordLULLABIESHUSH, LITTLE BABYTHOMAS DEKKER Golden Slumbers WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Sleep, Little OneALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Cradle Song CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Lullaby, Oh, Lullaby CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Lie A-Bed TRADITIONAL Oh Hush Thee, My DoveTRADITIONAL Sleep, Baby, SleepTRADITIONAL IRISH Toora, Loora, Loora TRADITIONAL GERMAN Sleep, Baby Sleep TRADITIONAL SWEEDISH Slumber Time Is Drawing Near TRADITIONAL SPANISH Rockaby Baby TRADITIONAL MEXICAN Señora Santa Ana TRADITIONAL Bye-O, Bye-O, Bye-O Baby TRADITIONAL Hush, My Little BirdWATCHING OVER MEANONYMOUS Lully, LullaGEORGE WITHER A Rocking Hymn ISAAC WATTS Cradle Hymn JOHANNES BRAHMS Brahms’s Lullaby SIR HAROLD BOULTON All Through the Night ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK When At Night I Go To SleepTRADITIONAL Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John AMERICAN SPIRITUAL Angels Watching Over MeAMERICAN SPIRITUAL Swing Low, Sweet Chariot TRADITIONAL WEST INDIAN Kumbayah THE VOYAGE OF SLEEPEUGENE FIELD Wynken, Blynken, and Nod ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON My Bed Is a BoatRUDYARD KIPLING TheWhite Seal’s Lullaby TRADITIONAL Baby’s Bed’s a Silver Moon ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The Land of Nod PROMISESSIR WALTER SCOTT Lullaby of an Infant Chief TRADITIONAL ENGLISH Rock-a-bye, Baby TRADTIONAL AMERICAN (SOUTHERN) All the Pretty Little Horses TRADITIONAL ENGLISH Cherries Are Ripe TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN Baiouski Baiou TRADITIONAL YIDDISH Raisins and Almonds TRADITIONAL, YORUBA PEOPLE, AFRICA Yoruba LullabyTRADTIONAL GREEK O Sweetly Does My Baby Sleep TRADITIONAL FRENCH Fais DodoTRADITIONAL Little Baby Sweetly SleepCHRISTINA ROSSETTI Your Brother Has a FalconEUGENE FIELD Armenian Lullaby GEORGE GERSHWIN Summertime CYNTHIA ZARIN Poem for a Birthday NIGHT FALLSWILLIAM BLAKE from Night JANE TAYLOR Twinkle, Twinkle, Little StarTRADITIONAL Day Is Done DOROTHY WORDSWORTH The Cottager To Her Infant SABINE BARING-GOULD Now the Day Is Over TRADITIONAL Autumn Lullaby TRADITIONAL The Evening Is Coming TRADITIONAL MANX Little Red BirdTRADITIONAL EL SALVADORAN Now Sleep Little Baby SPELLS AND CHARMSWILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Fairies Sing Titania To Sleep WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ariel’s SongJOHANNES BRAHMS The Sandman TRADITIONAL ENGLISH Monday’s Child TRADITIONAL Bed Is Too Small TRADITIONAL SOUTH AMERICAN Hush-a-Bye My Baby ANNE HALLEY Against Dark’s HarmSTORIES IN SONGSARAH JOSEPHA HALE Mary’s Lamb ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Minnie and Winnie TRADITIONAL ENGLISH Little Boy Blue TRADITIONAL Oh, Mother, How Pretty the Moon Is Tonight TRADITIONAL I Gave My Love a CherryTRADITIONAL ENGLISH Lavender’s Blue TRADITIONAL ENGLISH Oranges and Lemons TRADITIONAL Shady Grove,My Little LoveTRADITIONAL ENGLISH The Cambric Shirt SCOTTISH FOLK SONG The Skye Boat Song TRADITIONAL AMERICAN Oh, My Darling Clementine TRADITIONAL AMERICAN The Big Rock Candy Mountains IN MOTHER’S ARMSANN TAYLOR The Baby’s Dance HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN Mother and Child CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Crying, My Little OneTRADITIONAL Mother’s Song TRADITIONAL Mammy, Mammy Told Me-O TRADITIONAL Way Up High In the Cherry Tree TRADITIONAL IRISH I’ve Found My Bonny Babe a NestJOSEPH CAMPBELL The Gartan Mother’s Lullaby TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH Can Ye Sew Cushions? TRADITIONAL WELSH Suo-Gân TRADITIONAL RUSSIAN Bye You, Bye You TRADITIONAL HOPI INDIAN Hopi LullabyTRADITIONAL, AKAN PEOPLE, AFRICA Akan LullabyLANGSTON HUGHES Lullaby (For a Black Mother)MARY JO SALTER Lullaby for a DaughterWHEN DADDY COMES HOMEALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Sweet and Low TRADITIONAL ENGLISH Bye, Baby Bunting TRADITIONAL Hush, My Baby, Don’t You Cry TRADITIONAL AMERICAN (SOUTHERN) Hush, Little Baby, Don’t Say a Word TRADITIONAL Ally BallyTRADITIONAL WELSH Welsh LullabyTRADITIONAL SCOTTISH Dance to Your Daddy OGDEN NASH To Be Sung By the Father of Infant Female ChildrenWELCOME, STRANGERTHOM GUNN Baby Song SYLVIA PLATH Morning Song JUDITH WRIGHT Woman to Child DONALD JUSTICE To a Ten Months’ Child ANTHONY THWAITE At BirthAUDRE LORDE Now That I Am Forever With Child POEMS FOR CHILDRENNONSENSEANONYMOUS To Bed ANONYMOUS Hey! Diddle, Diddle ANONYMOUS Sing a Song of Sixpence ANONYMOUS Comical Folk ANONYMOUS The Crooked SongANONYMOUS The Man in the Wilderness EDWARD LEAR Self-Portrait of Edward Lear EDWARD LEAR The Table and the ChairCHRISTINA ROSSETTI If a Pig Wore a Wig CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Growing in the Vale LEWIS CARROLL You Are Old, Father William LEWIS CARROLL Jabberwocky LEWIS CARROLL The Mock Turtle’s Song JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Craqueodoom LAURA E. RICHARDS Eletelephony WALTER DE LA MARE Song ofthe Mad Prince OGDEN NASH Ode to a Baby SILLY STORIESANONYMOUS Good King ArthurANONYMOUS The Queen of Hearts ANONYMOUS Wee Willie WinkieANONYMOUS Little Bo-Peep OLIVER GOLDSMITH An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog SARAH CATHERINE MARTIN The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog EDWARD LEAR The Owl and the Pussy-Cat WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Tragic Story GEORGE MacDONALD Where Did You Come From, Baby Dear? CHRISTINA ROSSETI Mother Shake the Cherry-TreeLEWIS CARROLL TheWalrus and the Carpenter ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Bed in Summer ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON My Shadow OGDEN NASH The Tale of Custard the Dragon FANTASIESANONYMOUS I Saw a Ship A-Sailing ANONYMOUS King Pippin’s Hall ANONYMOUS If WILLIAM BLAKE Laughing SongALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls EUGENE FIELD The Sugar-Plum Tree ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Young Night Thought ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The Land of Counterpane ANIMALSANONYMOUS Bat, BatANONYMOUS Bow-Wow, Says the Dog ANONYMOUS The Quarrelsome Kittens ANONYMOUS To Market ANONYMOUS Dickery, Dickery, DareANONYMOUS A Guinea-Pig Song WILLIAM BLAKE Spring WILLIAM BLAKE The Tyger WILLIAM BLAKE The Lamb SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Answer to a Child’s Question LEWIS CARROLL How Doth the Little CrocodileEMILY DICKINSON Bee! I’m Expecting You! HILAIRE BELLOC The Frog T. S. ELIOT The Naming of Cats T. S. ELIOT The Song of the Jellicles CYNTHIA ZARIN The Opossum’s DreamAcknowledgments Index of First Lines