BabyVerse

A Nursery Rhyme for Benjamin

A free, original lullaby written just for the name Benjamin — ready to read tonight or turn into a keepsake poster.

Benjamin's Starry Night

Little Benjamin, soft and small,

Cradled where the moonbeams fall,

Tiny fingers, tiny toes,

As the gentle night wind blows.

Stars above like diamonds bright,

Wrap Benjamin in silver light,

Every twinkle sings a tune,

Underneath the velvet moon.

Benjamin dreams on clouds of white,

Bathed in starshine, warm and bright,

Angels hum a lullaby,

As the moon sails through the sky.

Written for Benjamin

A sample anyone can read. A keepsake poster gets a newly written rhyme.

Make it a keepsake Benjamin will have forever

We write Benjamin a new rhyme of their own in about a minute, then you pick the background and add a note for a print-ready 8×10 poster — a baby shower or new-baby gift.

Write Benjamin's Own Rhyme — posters from $14.99

Reading the rhyme is free · see what $14.99 includes

What does the name Benjamin mean?

Origin — Hebrew

From the Hebrew Binyamin, “son of the right hand”.

In Genesis his mother names him Ben-Oni, “son of my sorrow”, as she dies; his father renames him — one of the few explicit renamings in the text.

We follow the standard reference works on given names, and we say so plainly when a meaning is unsettled rather than choosing the prettiest one.

A rhyme written around Benjamin

Every BabyVerse verse is built around one name and its sound, so Benjamin hears their own name carried through the meter rather than dropped into a blank. That is the whole difference between a keepsake and a personalised product: the words could not be reused for another child.

Parents read it at bedtime. Grandparents and godparents frame it. Either way it is the one gift on the table that no one else can duplicate — which is why it tends to outlast everything else in the pile.

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