"Wee Willie Winkie" is a Scottish nursery rhyme, whose titular figure has become popular the world over as a personification of sleep. The poem, written by William Miller and titled "Willie Winkie", was first published in Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside in 1841. The original text of 1841 was written in Scots and is below: Versions paraphrased for English-language readers began to appear in print from 1844 in the form: