I SEE the sleeping babe, nestling the breast of its mother;
The sleeping mother and babe—hush’d, I study them long and long.
Mother and Babe.
Analysis, meaning and summary of Walt Whitman's poem Mother and Babe.
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He says a lot about the beauty of mother and child in those few short words!
This is a very good poem!!