Songs The Sandman Sings Author:Gwendolyn Reed Gwendolyn Reed has compiled 55 poems of bedtime, sleep, and dreams by authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Elizabeth Coatsworth, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling, Eleanor Farjeon, Alfred Noyes, Walter de la Mare, and many others. Peggy Owens Skillen's drawings on every page bring the poems to vibrant life.