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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LITTLE BLUE PIGEON (JAPANESE LULLABY), by EUGENE FIELD Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings
Last Line: Swinging the nest where my darling lies.
Variant Title(s): Japanese Lullaby
Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood
First Line: Sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings
Last Line: Swinging the nest where my darling lies.
Variant Title(s): Japanese Lullaby
Subject(s): Children; Mothers; Childhood
SLEEP, little pigeon, and fold your wings, --
Little blue pigeon with velvet eyes;
Sleep to the singing of mother-bird swinging --
Swinging the nest where her little one lies.
Away out yonder I see a star, --
Silvery star with a tinkling song;
To the soft dew falling I hear it calling --
Calling and tinkling the night along.
In through the window a moonbeam comes, --
Little gold moonbeam with misty wings;
All silently creeping, it asks: "Is he sleeping --
Sleeping and dreaming while mother sings?"
Up from the sea there floats a sob
Of the waves that are breaking upon the shore,
As though they were groaning in anguish, and
moaning --
Bemoaning the ship that shall come no more.
But sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings, --
Little blue pigeon with mournful eyes;
Am I not singing? -- see, I am swinging --
Swinging the nest where my darling lies.
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