• 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.

    ...

  • Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
      Sailed off in a wooden shoe—
    Sailed on a river of misty light
      Into a sea of dew.
    “Where are you going, and what do you wish?”
      The old moon asked the three.
    “We have come to fish for the herring-fish
      That live in this beautiful sea;
      Nets of silver and gold have we,”

    ...