The moon here has a face "like the clock in the hall" and lights up thieves, cats, mice and sleeping birds while flowers and children shut their eyes against her. That contrast between the busy night creatures and the sleeping day ones gives it a gentle, winding-down shape for reading right before lights out.
From A Child's Garden of Verses. See the whole collection.
The moon has a face like the clock in the hall;
She shines on thieves on the garden wall,
On streets and field and harbour quays,
And birdies asleep in the forks of the trees.
The squalling cat and the squeaking mouse,
The howling dog by the door of the house,
The bat that lies in bed at noon,
All love to be out by the light of the moon.
But all of the things that belong to the day
Cuddle to sleep to be out of her way;
And flowers and children close their eyes
Till up in the morning the sun shall arise.
About this poem
Poem's list matches: thieves on the garden wall, the squalling cat, the squeaking mouse, the howling dog by the door of the house.
"The Moon" gives the moon a face "like the clock in the hall" and sends her round to check on everyone the daylight world doesn't see: thieves, cats, mice, the dog by the door. It's a short night-watch poem, gentle rather than spooky.
Say the animal lines slowly and let a child guess what comes next.
Public domain. Text from A Child's Garden of Verses (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1885), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition