BabyVerse

A Nursery Rhyme for Lincoln

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

Little Lincoln's Starlight

Little Lincoln, the stars are bright tonight

Dancing softly in the velvet sky so light

The moon hums a tune through the quiet night

While the world glows gently, wrapped in silver light

The stars are winking, one by one they gleam

They paint the sky with whispers like a dream

The night wind sings a lullaby so sweet

As Lincoln sleeps where the starlight meets his feet

Twinkle, Lincoln, under heaven's golden gleam

The sky is stitching you a blanket from moonbeams

While constellations guard your tiny heart

The night wraps you in its tender, glowing art

Written for Lincoln

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

Make it a keepsake Lincoln will have forever

We write Lincoln 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 Lincoln's Own Rhyme — posters from $14.99

Reading the rhyme is free · see what $14.99 includes

What does the name Lincoln mean?

Origin — Brittonic and Latin

From the English city: the Brittonic lindo, “pool”, plus the Latin colonia, the Roman settlement founded there for retired legionaries.

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 Lincoln

Every BabyVerse verse is built around one name and its sound, so Lincoln 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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