'Tis but the moon that shines so bright
On the window pane, bedropped with rain:
Then, little Darling! sleep again,
And wake when it is day."
The following (written in 1806) has been described by Charles Lamb as masterly:—
"ADDRESS TO A CHILD (DURING A BOISTEROUS WINTER EVENING).
"What way does the Wind come? What way does he go?
He rides over the water, and over the snow;
Through wood and through vale; and o'er rocky height
Which the goat cannot climb, takes his sounding flight;