Lullabies and Poems for Children [Hardcover]

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.Foreword

LULLABIES

HUSH, LITTLE BABY
THOMAS DEKKER Golden Slumbers
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Sleep, Little One
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Cradle Song
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Lullaby, Oh, Lullaby
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Lie A-Bed
TRADITIONAL Oh Hush Thee, My Dove
TRADITIONAL Sleep, Baby, Sleep
TRADITIONAL 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 Bird

WATCHING OVER ME
ANONYMOUS Lully, Lulla
GEORGE 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 Sleep
TRADITIONAL Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
AMERICAN SPIRITUAL Angels Watching Over Me
AMERICAN SPIRITUAL Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
TRADITIONAL WEST INDIAN Kumbayah

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