Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, CRADLE SONG (TO A TUNE OF BLAKE'S): 1, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE


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First Line: Baby, baby bright
Last Line: Heaven in two blue eyes.
Subject(s): Blake, William (1757-1827)


To a Tune of Blake's


Baby, baby bright,
Sleep can steal from sight
Little of your light:

Soft as fire in dew,
Still the life in you
Lights your slumber through.

Four white eyelids keep
Fast the seal of sleep
Deep as love is deep:

Yet, though closed it lies,
Love behind them spies
Heaven in two blue eyes.





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