Chapter 1

NURSERY JINGLES

CHARACTER SKETCHES Little Miss Muffet Diddle, diddle, dumpling Let's go to bed Jack Sprat There was a little girl

SCENES AND INCIDENTS Jack and Jill Hickory, dickory, dock There was an old woman Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater Little Jack Horner

TALES Old Mother Hubbard Little Bo-peep The Babes in the Woods

NONSENSE AND HUMOROUS RHYMES Old Dan Tucker Old Man John We're all in the dumps I had a little horse

SATIRES AND TAUNTS Georgy-porgy April fool Johnny's mad Cry, baby, cry Tell-tale-tit

TONGUE TWISTERS Peter Piper Swan swam over the sea

COUNTING-OUT JINGLES Ickity, pickity One-ery, two-ery Inty, minty Intery, mintery

GESTURE AND ACTION SONGS Trit-trot Hippity-hop This little mouse Here we go up, up, up

RIDDLES A Cherry A Fodder Field, a Hog, and a Dog Hens A Churn An Egg A Star

CATCHES There, was a man who had no eyes I am a gold lock As I was going to St. Ives

CHARMS AND SUPERSTITIONS Star of light Marble, marble, roll away Honest and true Come, butter, come Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Mole on the neck

WEATHER WISDOM Rain before seven Evening red When the fog goes up the hill When the bees all homeward fly

AIDS TO MEMORY One, two, three, four Naught, one In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Thirty days hath September

PROVERBS Birds of a feather He that would thrive Little strokes See a pin and pick it up For every evil under the sun

PEDDLER'S CRIES Pease porridge hot Hot-cross buns

SOME CHILDREN'S POETS

WILLIAM BLAKE Piping down the valleys wild The Lamb Laughing Song

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI The Wind The City Mouse and the Garden Mouse Lullaby A Flint The Sisters

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The Wind Windy Nights The Whole Duty of Children My Bed Is a Boat The Land of Counterpane The Land of Storybooks

LUCY LARCOM If I Were a Sunbeam The Rivulet The Brown Thrush

ANN AND JANE TAYLOR Meddlesome Matty The Violet The Star The Way to be Happy

ISAAC WATTS Against Idleness and Mischief A Morning Song A Cradle Hymn

LEWIS CARROLL Jabberwocky You Are Old, Father William The Walrus and the Carpenter

EDWARD LEAR There was an Old Man of the West There was an Old Man with a beard There was an Old Person of Dean There was a Young Lady whose chin There is a Young Lady whose nose The Owl and the Pussy-Cat The Jumblies

BALLADS

POPULAR Bonny Barbara Allan Sir Patrick Spence Robin Hood and Allin a Dale Kinmont Willie

MODERN The Wreck of the Hesperus, _Longfellow_ La Belle Dame sans Merci, _Keats_ Lord Ullin's Daughter, _Campbell_ Young Lochinvar, _Scott_ How They Brought the Good News, _Browning_ The Revenge, _Tennyson_

LYRICS

OUR COUNTRY America, _Smith_ My Native Land, _Scott_ Columbus, _Miller_ Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers, _Hemans_ Concord Hymn, _Emerson_ Old Ironsides, _Holmes_ O Captain! My Captain!, _Whitman_

LOVE LYRICS To Lucasta, _Lovelace_ She Walks in Beauty, _Byron_ A Red, Red Rose, _Burns_

POEMS OF NATURE The Greenwood Tree, _Shakespeare_ A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea, _Cunningham_ I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, _Wordsworth_ The Rhodora, _Emerson_ To the Fringed Genlian, _Bryant_ The Eagle, _Tennyson_ On the Grasshopper and Cricket, _Keats_

LESSONS FROM NATURE To a Waterfowl, _Bryant_ The Chambered Nautilus, _Holmes_ The Bugle Song, _Tennyson_

SONGS OF LIFE The Noble Nature, _Jonson_ The Character of a Happy Life, _Wotton_ Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth, _Clough_ For A' That and A' That, _Burns_ Invictus, _Henley_ Opportunity, _Sill_ A Psalm of Life, _Longfellow_