Selected Lullabies

Selected Lullabies gathers the gentlest verses from one of America's most beloved poets for children. Eugene Field possessed a rare gift: the ability to capture the hush of evening, the soft weight of a child drifting off, the tender rituals of bedtime. Here are the poems that have lulled generations to sleep: 'Wynken, Blynken, and Nod' with its three little starlight sailors sailing through the sky, 'Little Boy Blue' with its haunting tenderness, and dozens more where a mother croons to her child, where dreams are woven from starlight and silver. These are not merely poems for children but poems about childhood itself, about that sacred twilight hour when the world grows small and safe. Field wrote with a parent's understanding that a lullaby is not just a song but a promise: you are here, you are loved, the darkness is kind. Reading these as an adult is to remember what it felt like to be held in the arms of someone who made the whole world safe for sleeping.