Cover of Sweet and Low, newly illustrated — a mother and baby by a moonlit sea watching for a ship with silver sails

by Alfred, Lord Tennyson · newly illustrated

Sweet and Low

Tennyson's tender sea-lullaby — the western wind is called home over the rolling waters to carry a father's ship back to a sleeping child. A moonlit song of longing and homecoming.

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