Upon My Lap My Sovereign Sits

Martin Peerson 1571 (Cambridgeshire) – 1651 (London)



Upon my lap my sovereign sits
And sucks upon my breast;
Meantime his love maintains my life
And gives my sense her rest.
Sing lullaby, my little boy,
Sing lullaby, mine only joy!

When thou hast taken thy repast,
Repose, my babe, on me;
So may thy mother and thy nurse
Thy cradle also be.
Sing lullaby, my little boy,
Sing lullaby, mine only joy!

I grieve that duty doth not work
All that my wishing would,
Because I would not be to thee
But in the best I should.
Sing lullaby, my little boy,
Sing lullaby, mine only joy!

Yet as I am, and as I may,
I must and will be thine,
Though all too little for thyself
Vouchsafing to be mine.
Sing lullaby, my little boy,
Sing lullaby, mine only joy!

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme xabaCC adxdCC xedeCC xfbfCC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 689
Words 136
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6, 6

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