19th Century Public Domain Poem: Good-Night by W.T. Peters (Poetry for Kids)

GOOD-NIGHT
by W.T. Peters
(Originally published 1881)

GOOD-NIGHT, happy stars,
With your yellow eyes,
Good-night, lady moon,
In the evening skies;
Good-night, dusky world
And the boundless deep;
I am tired out;
It is time to sleep ―
Time, time to sleep.
Good-night! Good-night!

Good-night, weary boy;
It has been decreed
That some mysteries
Only a child can read;
But the sweet child-heart
May you always keep,
And the stars will be yours
And the boundless deep ―
The boundless, boundless deep.
Good-night! Good-night!

Vintage 1912 photo of the mother and sleeping child above
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Sunday Walk, 1875

Time flows in strange ways on Sundays,
and sights become mysteriously distorted.
― Haruki Murakami

Mother and daughter on a Sunday walk, 1875
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Printable Vintage Fashion Illustration for Collage Art, Graphic Design, Papercrafts or Scrapbooking: Twin Brides on the Terrace, 1892

After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me.
But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness.
On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield;
it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time
if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.
― Paulo Coelho, The Witch of Portobello

Twin brides on the terrace, 1892
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