Rock Me to Sleep

poem by Allen

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In Elizabeth Anne Chase Akers Allen
… of Philadelphia the poem entitled “Rock Me to Sleep,” whose opening lines—“Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, / And make me a child again, just for to-night!”—became universally familiar. That poem remained by far her best known, although she published much superior verse, frequently in the Atlantic Monthly.
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