StoryTitle("caps", "Lullaby") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon my lap my sovereign sits ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sucks upon my breast; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Meantime his love maintains my life ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And gives my sense her rest. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sing lullaby, my little boy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sing lullaby, mine only joy! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When thou hast taken thy repast, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Repose, my babe, on me; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So may thy mother and thy nurse ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thy cradle also be. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sing lullaby, my little boy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sing lullaby, mine only joy! ", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I grieve that duty doth not work ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All that my wishing would; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Because I would not be to thee ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But in the best I should. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sing lullaby, my little boy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sing lullaby, mine only joy! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet as I am, and as I may, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "I must and will be thine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though all too little for thyself ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Vouchsafing to be mine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sing lullaby, my little boy, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sing lullaby, mine only joy!", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Rowlands", "1565-1630?") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>