RHYMES. A cat came fiddling A dillar, a dollar As I was going to St. Ives As I was going up Pippen Hill A swarm of bees in May Mother Goose
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
NONSENSE ALPHABET Edward Lear
THE EGG IN THE NEST Unknown
RHYMES
Hey! diddle diddle
Pussy sits beside the fire
Ding dong bell
Mother Goose
DAISIES Frank Dempster Sherman
SPINNING TOP Frank Dempster Sherman
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
RHYMES. Bobby Shafto’s gone to sea Every lady in this land Great A, little a Hark, hark Sing a song of sixpence Hickory, dickory dock Hot-cross buns! How does my lady’s garden grow? Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top Some little mice sat in a barn to spin If all the world were apple-pie If wishes were horses I have a little sister Mother Goose WHO STOLE THE BIRD’S NEST? Lydia Maria Child RHYMES. I saw a ship a-sailing Jack and Jill went up the hill Little Bo-peep Little boy blue Little girl, little girl Little Jack Horner sat in the corner Little Johnny Pringle had a little pig Little Miss Muffet There was a little man Little Tommy Tacker Mother Goose PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS HAPPY THOUGHT Robert Louis Stevenson THE SUN’S TRAVELS Robert Louis Stevenson MY BED IS A BOAT Robert Louis Stevenson THE SWING Robert Louis Stevenson RHYMES Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Mistress Mary, quite contrary Old King Cole Old Mother Hubbard Mother Goose RUNAWAY BROOK Eliza Lee Fallen BED IN SUMMER Robert Louis Stevenson AT THE SEASIDE Robert Louis Stevenson THE MEETING OF THE SHIPS Thomas Moore PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS Three little kittens Once I saw a little bird One misty, moisty morning Peter Piper Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross Three wise men of Gotham See, saw, sacradown Simple Simon met a pieman Mother Goose
PRETTY COW Jane Taylor
THE STAR Jane Taylor
MARY’S LAMB Sara Josepha Hale
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
RHYMES Solomon Grundy The King of France The man in the wilderness There was a crooked man Tom, Tom, the piper’s son There was a little boy There was a man of our town This pig went to market Tom, Tom, of Islington Mother Goose