1137. The Way the Baby Slept by James Whitcomb Riley. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

1137. The Way the Baby Slept

By James Whitcomb Riley


THIS is the way the baby slept:
A mist of tresses backward thrown
By quavering sighs where kisses crept
With yearnings she had never known:
The little hands were closely kept	5
About a lily newly blown—
And God was with her. And we wept.—
And this is the way the baby slept.