<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409690" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Child Asleep. (From The French)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet babe! true portrait of thy father's face,<br>Sleep on the bosom that thy lips have pressed!<br>Sleep, little one; and closely, gently place<br>Thy drowsy eyelid on thy mother's breast.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon that tender eye, my little friend,<br>Soft sleep shall come, that cometh not to me!<br>I watch to see thee, nourish thee, defend;<br>'Tis sweet to watch for thee, alone for thee!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His arms fall down; sleep sits upon his brow;<br>His eye is closed; he sleeps, nor dreams of harm.<br>Wore not his cheek the apple's ruddy glow, <br>Would you not say he slept on Death's cold arm?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Awake, my boy! I tremble with affright!<br>Awake, and chase this fatal thought! Unclose<br>Thine eye but for one moment on the light!<br>Even at the price of thine, give me repose!</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sweet error! he but slept! -- I breathe again;<br>Come, gentle dreams, the hour of sleep beguile!<br>Oh, when shall he, for whom I sigh in vain,<br>Beside me watch to see thy waking smile?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=409690" data-title="The Child Asleep. (From The French) de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" data-description="Sweet babe! true portrait of thy father's face, Sleep on the bosom that thy lips have pressed! Sleep, little one; and closely, gently place Thy drowsy eyelid on thy mother's breast. Upon that tender eye, my little friend, Soft sleep shall come, t..."></div> </div> </div>

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