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 raucousfrom 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.

Diana Secker Tesdell is the editor of the Everyman's Pocket Classic anthologies Christmas Stories, Love Stories, Dog Stories, Cat Stories, Horse Stories, New York Stories, Bedtime Stories, Stories of Art and Artists, Stories of Fatherhood, Stories of Motherhood, Stories of the Sea, and Stories from the Kitchen, and of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poet Lullabies and Poems for Children.

Foreword	p. 13
Lullabies
Hush, Little Baby
Golden Slumbers	p. 19
Sleep, Little One	p. 20
Cradle Song	p. 21
Lullaby, Oh, Lullaby	p. 22
Lie A-Bed	p. 23
Oh Hush Thee, My Dove	p. 24
Sleep, Baby, Sleep	p. 25
Toora, Loora, Loora	p. 26
Sleep, Baby Sleep	p. 27
Slumber Time Is Drawing Near	p. 28
Sleep My Baby	p. 29
Rockaby Baby	p. 30
Senora Santa Ana	p. 31
Bye-O, Bye-O, Bye-O Baby	p. 32
Hush, My Little Bird	p. 33
Watching Over Me
Lully, Lulla	p. 37
A Rocking Hymn	p. 38
Cradle Hymn	p. 40
Brahms's Lullaby	p. 42
All Through the Night	p. 44
When At Night I Go To Sleep	p. 45
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John	p. 46
Angels Watching Over Me	p. 47
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot	p. 48
Kumbayah	p. 49
The Vorage of Sleep
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod	p. 53
My Bed Is a Boat	p. 55
The White Seal's Lullaby	p. 56
Baby's Bed's a Silver Moon	p. 57
The Land of Nod	p. 58
Promises
Lullaby of an Infant Chief	p. 61
Rock-a-bye, Baby	p. 62
All the Pretty Little Horses	p. 63
Cherries Are Ripe	p. 64
Baiouski Baiou	p. 65
Raisins and Almonds	p. 66
Yoruba Lullaby	p. 67
O Sweetly Does My Baby Sleep	p. 68
Fais Dodo	p. 69
Little Baby Sweetly Sleep	p. 70
Your Brother Has a Falcon	p. 71
Armenian Lullaby	p. 72
Summertime	p. 74
Poem for a Birthday	p. 75
Night Falls
From Night	p. 79
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star	p. 80
Day Is Done	p. 82
The Cottager To Her Infant	p. 83
Now the Day Is Over	p. 84
Autumn Lullaby	p. 86
The Evening Is Coming	p. 87
Little Red Bird	p. 88
Now Sleep Little Baby	p. 90
Spells and Charms
The Fairies Sing Titania To Sleep	p. 93
Ariel's Song	p. 94
The Sandman	p. 95
Monday's Child	p. 96
Bed Is Too Small	p. 97
Hush-a-Bye My Baby	p. 98
Against Dark's Harm	p. 99
Stories in Song
Mary's Lamb	p. 103
Minnie and Winnie	p. 104
Little Boy Blue	p. 105
Oh, Mother, How Pretty the Moon Is Tonight	p. 106
I Gave My Love a Cherry	p. 107
Lavender's Blue	p. 108
Oranges and Lemons	p. 110
Shady Grove, My Little Love	p. 111
The Cambric Shirt	p. 112
The Skye Boat Song	p. 114
Oh, My Darling Clementine	p. 116
The Big Rock Candy Mountains	p. 118
In Mother's Arms
The Baby's Dance	p. 121
Mother and Child	p. 122
Crying, My Little One	p. 123
Mother's Song	p. 124
Mammy, Mammy Told Me-O	p. 125
Way Up High In the Cherry Tree	p. 126
I've Found My Bonny Babe a Nest	p. 127
The Gartan Mother's Lullaby	p. 128
Can Ye Sew Cushions?	p. 129
Suo-Gan	p. 130
Bye You, Bye You	p. 131
Hopi Lullaby	p. 132
Akan Lullaby	p. 133
Lullaby (For a Black Mother)	p. 134
Lullaby for a Daughter	p. 136
When Daddy Comes Home
Sweet and Low	p. 139
Bye, Baby Bunting	p. 140
Hush, My Baby, Don't You Cry	p. 141
Hush, Little Baby, Don't Say a Word	p. 142
Ally Bally	p. 143
Welsh Lullaby	p. 144
Dance to Your Daddy	p. 146
Song To Be Sung By the Father of Infant Female Children	p. 147
Welcome, Stranger
Baby Song	p. 153
Morning Song	p. 154
Woman to Child	p. 155
To a Ten Months' Child	p. 156
At Birth	p. 157
Now That I Am Forever With Child	p. 158
Poems for Children
Nonsense
To Bed	p. 163
Hey! Diddle, Diddle	p. 163
Sing a Song of Sixpence	p. 164
Comical Folk	p. 165
The Crooked Song	p. 166
The Man in the Wilderness	p. 167
Self-Portrait of Edward Lear	p. 168
The Table and the Chair	p. 170
If a Pig Wore a Wig	p. 172
Growing in the Vale	p. 173
You Are Old, Father William	p. 174
Jabberwocky	p. 176
The Mock Turtle's Song	p. 178
Craqueodoom	p. 180
Eletelephony	p. 181
Song of the Mad Prince	p. 182
Ode to a Baby	p. 183
Silly Stories
Good King Arthur	p. 187
The Queen of Hearts	p. 188
Wee Willie Winkie	p. 189
Little Bo-Peep	p. 190
An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog	p. 191
The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog	p. 193
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat	p. 196
A Tragic Story	p. 198
Where Did You Come From, Baby Dear?	p. 200
Mother Shake the Cherry-Tree	p. 202
The Walrus and the Carpenter	p. 203
Bed in Summer	p. 208
My Shadow	p. 209
The Tale of Custard the Dragon	p. 210
Fantasies
I Saw a Ship A-Sailing	p. 215
King Pippin's Hall	p. 216
If	p. 216
Laughing Song	p. 217
The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls	p. 218
The Sugar-Plum Tree	p. 219
Young Night Thought	p. 221
The Land of Counterpane	p. 222
Animals
Bat, Bat	p. 225
Bow-Wow, Says the Dog	p. 226
The Quarrelsome Kittens	p. 227
To Market	p. 228
Dickery, Dickery, Dare	p. 228
A Guinea-Pig Song	p. 229
Spring	p. 230
The Tyger	p. 232
The Lamb	p. 234
Answer to a Child's Question	p. 235
How Doth the Little Crocodile	p. 236
Bee! I'm Expecting You!	p. 237
The Frog	p. 238
The Naming of Cats	p. 239
The Song of the Jellicles	p. 241
The Opossum's Dream	p. 243
Acknowledgments	p. 247
Index of First Lines	p. 251
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