345. A Cradle Song by William Blake
b"W Blake read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\n\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------------\\n\\nA Cradle Song\\n\\nby William Blake(1757 \\u2013 1827) \\n\\nSleep, sleep, beauty bright,\\nDreaming in the joys of night;\\nSleep, sleep; in thy sleep\\nLittle sorrows sit and weep.\\n\\nSweet babe, in thy face\\nSoft desires I can trace,\\nSecret joys and secret smiles,\\nLittle pretty infant wiles.\\n\\nAs thy softest limbs I feel,\\nSmiles as of the morning steal\\nO'er thy cheek, and o'er thy breast\\nWhere thy little heart doth rest.\\n\\nO the cunning wiles that creep\\nIn thy little heart asleep!\\nWhen thy little heart doth wake,\\nThen the dreadful light shall break.\\n\\nFirst aired: 26 September 2008\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2008"