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Poem by John Bannister Tabb


Sleep


  When he is a little chap,
      We call him Nap.
  When he somewhat older grows,
      We call him Doze.
  When his age by hours we number,
      We call him Slumber.



John Bannister Tabb


John Bannister Tabb's other poems:
  1. Bicycles! Tricycles!
  2. The Pleiads
  3. An Interview
  4. An Idolater
  5. Cats


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Isaac Rosenberg Sleep ("Godhead's lip hangs")
  • Abraham Cowley Sleep ("In vain, thou drowsy God! I thee invoke")
  • Henry Longfellow Sleep ("Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful sound")
  • James Johnson Sleep ("O Sleep, thou kindest minister to man")
  • Edward Young Sleep ("Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep")
  • Archibald Lampman Sleep ("If any man, with sleepless care oppressed")
  • Henry Bukowski sleep ("she was a short one")

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