Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PUT TO SLEEP, by RICHARD KENDALL MUNKITTRICK


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PUT TO SLEEP, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Back and forth in a rocker
Last Line: Had crowed his mother to sleep.
Subject(s): Mothers; Sleep


To my heart's garden, stealthily
Came he
To steal the rose that bloomed in it.
Ah, thief!
I caught him, hand, head and heart;
Smile! Cry! a robber, thou art!
Ah, me
Who caught whom, He me?
Had crowed his mother to sleep.





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