- A Cradle Song (1789), a poem by William Blake from Songs of Innocence. ("Sweet dreams, form a shade")
- A Cradle Song (1794), a poem by William Blake from the Notebook (c. 1793) intended for Songs of Experience. ("Sleep, Sleep, beauty bright")
- Cradle Song, a song with music by Johannes Brahms and anonymous lyrics, commonly known as Brahms' Lullaby. ("Lullaby and good-night, with roses delight")
- Cradle Song, a poem by Florence Earle Coates. ("Thy heart and mine are one, my dear")
- A Cradle Song, a poem by Padraic Colum published in Wild Earth (1907). ("O, men from the fields!")
- Cradle Song, a poem by Richard Watson Gilder. ("In the embers shining bright")
- "Cradle Song", a poem by Rebecca Queen Jordan
- Cradle-Song, a poem by Sarojini Naidu. ("From groves of spice")
- Cradle Song, a poem by Johan Ludvig Runeberg ("Slumber, my darling, the waning light dies")
- Cradle Song, a poem by Samuel F. Smith, translated from the anonymous German lullaby "Schlaf, Kindlein, schlaf". ("Sleep, baby, sleep!")
- Cradle Song, a song with music by Carl Maria von Weber and anonymous translation of lyrics by Franz Carl Hiemer. ("Sleep, my heart's darling, in slumber repose")
- "Cradle Song", a poem by Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer