Sing-song: A Nursery Rhyme Book Older Version: edited Feb 4, 2013

poems

• 1 A baby's cradle with no baby in it
• 2 A city plum is not a plum
• 3 A diamond or a coal?
• 4 A frisky lamb
• 5 A house of cards
• 6 A linnet in a gilded cage
• 7 All the bells were ringing
• 8 A motherless soft lambkin
• 9 An emerald is as green as grass
• 10 Angels at the foot
• 11 A pin has a head, but has no hair
• 12 A pocket handkerchief to hem
• 13 A ring upon her finger
• 14 A rose has thorns as well as honey
• 15 A toadstool comes up in a night
• 16 A white hen sitting
• 17 Baby cry
• 18 Baby lies so fast asleep
• 19 Blind from my birth
• 20 Boats sail on the rivers
• 21 Bread and milk for breakfast
• 22 Brown and furry
• 23 Brownie, Brownie, let down your milk
• 24 Clever little Willie wee
• 25 Crimson curtains round my mother's bed
• 26 Crying, my little one, footsore and weary?
• 27 Currants on a bush
• 28 Dancing on the hill-tops
• 29 Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush
• 30 "Ding a ding"
• 31 Eight o'clock
• 32 Ferry me across the water
• 33 Fly away, fly away over the sea
• 34 "Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow"
• 35 Growing in the vale
• 36 Heartsease in my garden bed
• 37 Hear what the mournful linnets say
• 38 Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth
• 39 Hop-o'-my-thumb and little Jack Horner
• 40 Hopping frog, hop here and be seen
• 41 How many seconds in a minute?
• 42 Hurt no living thing
• 43 I am a King
• 44 I caught a little ladybird
• 45 I dreamt I caught a little owl
• 46 I dug and dug amongst the snow
• 47 If all were rain and never sun
• 48 If a mouse could fly
• 49 If a pig wore a wig
• 50 If hope grew on a bush
• 51 If I were a Queen
• 52 If stars dropped out of heaven
• 53 If the moon came from heaven
• 54 If the sun could tell us half
• 55 I have a little husband
• 56 I have a Poll parrot
• 57 I have but one rose in the world
• 58 I know a baby, such a baby
• 59 In the meadow -- what in the meadow?
• 60 I planted a hand
• 61 Is the moon tired? she looks so pale
• 62 January cold desolate
• 63 "Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!"
• 64 Lie a-bed
• 65 Love me, -- I love you
• 66 Lullaby, oh, lullaby!
• 67 Margaret has a milking-pail
• 68 Minnie and Mattie
• 69 Minnie bakes oaten cakes
• 70 Mix a pancake
• 71 Motherless baby and babyless mother
• 72 Mother shake the cherry tree
• 73 My baby has a father and a mother
• 74 My baby has a mottled fist
• 75 Oh, fair to see
• 76 O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the east
• 77 One and one are two
• 78 On the grassy banks
• 79 O sailor, come ashore
• 80 Our little baby fell asleep
• 81 O wind, where have you been
• 82 O wind, why do you never rest
• 83 Playing at bob cherry
• 84 Pussy has a whiskered face
• 85 Roses blushing red and white
• 86 Rosy maiden Winifred
• 87 Rushes in a watery place
• 88 Seldom "can't"
• 89 Sing me a song
• 90 Stroke a flint, and there is nothing to admire
• 91 Swift and sure the swallow
• 92 The city mouse lives in a house
• 93 The days are clear
• 94 The days are clear
• 95 The dog lies in his kennel
• 96 The horses of the sea
• 97 The lily has an air
• 98 The lily has a smooth stalk
• 99 The peach tree on the southern wall
• 100 The peacock has a score of eyes
• 101 There is but one May in the year
• 102 There is one that has a head without an eye
• 103 There's snow on the fields
• 104 The rose that blushes rosy red
• 105 The rose with such a bonny blush
• 106 The summer nights are short
• 107 The wind has such a rainy sound
• 108 Three little children
• 109 Three plum buns
• 110 Twist me a crown of wind-flowers
• 111 Under the ivy bush
• 112 Wee wee husband
• 113 What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow
• 114 What does the bee do?
• 115 What does the donkey bray about?
• 116 What do the stars do?
• 117 What is pink? a rose is pink
• 118 What will you give me for my pound?
• 119 When a mounting skylark sings
• 120 When fishes set umbrellas up
• 121 When the cows come home the milk is coming
• 122 Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are
• 123 Who has seen the wind?
• 124 Why did baby die
• 125 Wrens and robins in the hedge
• 126 Your brother has a falcon