Golden slumbers kiss your eyes

Golden slumbers kiss your eyes,
Smiles awake you when you rise.
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby:
[Rock them, rock [them]1, lullaby.]2

[Care is heavy, therefore sleep you;
You are care, and care must keep you.
Sleep, pretty wantons, do not cry,
And I will sing a lullaby:
Rock them, rock [them]1, lullaby.]3

 Care you know not, therefore sleep,
 while I o'er you watch do keep.
 Sleep, pretty darling, do not cry,
 and I will sing a lullaby.

by Thomas Dekker (1570-1641) , "Golden slumbers kiss your eyes", from The Pleasant Comoedy of Patient Grissill, published 1603

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Alfredo Casella (1883-1947) , "Golden slumbers kiss your eyes", op. 22 no. 1 (1913), from Deux Chansons anciennes, no. 1.
by Francis Alan Jackson (1917-) , "Golden slumbers kiss your eyes", subtitle: "A lullaby", op. 19 no. 2.
by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) , "Golden slumbers"
by Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym] , "Lullaby", 1918, published 1919.

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