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