Serenade (Monday Poem)

By Mary Weston Fordham

 

 

Sleep, sleep, love sleep,

The night winds sigh,

In soft lullaby.

The Lark is at rest
With the dew on her breast.
So close those dear eyes,
That borrowed their hue
From the heavens so blue,
Sleep, love sleep.

Sleep, love sleep,
The pale moon looks down
On the valleys around,
The Glow Moth is flying,
The South wind is sighing,
And I am low lying,
With lute deftly strung,
To pour out my song,
Sleep, love sleep.

from She Wields a Pen: American Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century

University of Iowa Press, 1997