..._Our Old Nursery Rhymes_ (1911) is a book of 30 of folkloric songs arranged by Alfred Moffatt and beautifully illustrated by H. Willebeck Le Mair. You and your child can listen and sing along as you read the http://www.childrenslibrar...

...on: Quotations from Shakespeare’s plays, famous poems, Dr. Seuss, Ben Franklin, Will Rogers, Martin Luther King, Jr., the Talmud, Chinese proverbs, & nursery rhymes. Confusing words, prefixes & suffixes, & frequently misspelled words. Common foreign phrases and expressions used in the English language: from romance & other European languages—plus Yiddish. A panoply of exci...

A heartwarming collection of nursery rhymes that will take you back to your childhood! (Summary by Allyson Hester)

...Full of delightful nursery rhymes, charming poems and engaging stories, folk and fairy tales, this is the first volume of the My Bookhouse series for little ones. Originally published in the 1920's as a six volume set, these books, edited by Ol...

A collection of Classical children's nursery rhymes. Many familiar, a few unfamiliar, all simple and easy for younger children.

...This is a collection of 14 songs chosen from Walter Crane's The Baby's Opera and The Baby's Bouquet containing classic nursery rhymes from England, France, and Germany. The songs are sung by 's very own Carol Stripling....

...Before he wrote the Oz books, L. Frank Baum wrote this book which was the best selling book of 1897. Taking 22 beloved nursery rhymes, he explains their meaning and fascinating history. What is the true story of Little Boy Blue? Why was Mary contrary? As he says in the introduction, Many of these nursery rhymes are complete tales in themselve...

...Whether Mother Goose was a real person or a myth, the songs that are attributed to her name are what we remember from our childhood. Some of these nursery rhymes are complete tales in themselves. There are others which are mere suggestions, leaving the imagination to weave in the details of the story. Many of the rhymes’ origins even at the time of this books writing, c...

...neral management and common diseases of cats, as well as how to raise healthy kittens. But there is also a hodge podge of cat related stories, games, nursery rhymes, superstitions, as well as a list of cat lovers and a chapter of The Cat in Shakespeare. (Summary by Availle)...

...n cloud bursting into cheekfulls of manna gumdrops glistening cane sugar over Aaron’s staff a’ rapping Exodus dream beats into pied piping fairy tale nursery rhymes black butterfly kissing the roof bound fiddler, who passes a raven beak sonnet higher sunwards to Gandalf the Gray, while blowing wisp o’ the wind hot totties into Edgar Allen’s brain fabric to drip rainbow jui...

...lly debated the merit of giving her child mendacities as she told him German nursery rhymes and lightly washed his small body. She supposed that the s... ...ted the merit of giving her child mendacities as she told him German nursery rhymes and lightly washed his small body. She supposed that the sparked i... ...left with Hispanic Betty if the two of them were still planning to go to the nursery. She didn't want to see them dragged through flowers, trees, and...

... Guide!” (The Ghost uneasily replied He hardly thought it was). “It’s not in Nursery Rhymes? And yet I almost think it is — ‘Three little Ghosteses’ ... ... (The Ghost uneasily replied He hardly thought it was). “It’s not in Nursery Rhymes? And yet I almost think it is — ‘Three little Ghosteses’ were set... ... that he did so day and night, That would be like the Sea. I had a vision of nursery maids; Tens of thousands passed by me — All leading children with...

...’ said Katherine; ‘if we take Dora into our room, and Winifred goes to the nursery, there is their room; but Aunt Anne’s maid must have that.’ ‘Anne s... ..., a man with a parish of fifteen hundred inhabitants, cannot watch his own nursery very minutely,’ said Lady Merton; ‘he taught Elizabeth admirably, a... ...ven years old, carried off Winifred and Edward to their own domains in the nursery. Elizabeth’s room had been set to rights for the accom- modation of... ...ere besides a few trea- sures of Horace’s, too tender to be trusted in the nursery in his absence at school. The window looked out upon the empty soli... ...ll as well as we do,’ said Dora; ‘we have all been talking about it in the nursery, this evening, at supper:—and you know, Mamma, he has quite left of... ...ed to write a copy of verses in which these words were to be introduced as rhymes in the order in which they stood in the list. Rupert was rather put ... ...d with what she considered their applause, though she knew that of all the rhymes, scarcely three had been found by herself. ‘Why, Mr. Merton, what ar... ...not so hard for me to rise. For badness soon is gained, forth bounce My rhymes such as they are; Good critics, on my lines don’t pounce, Though ...

... we cast; While viewless minstrels touch the string, ’Tis thus our charmed rhymes we sing.’ She sung, and still a harp unseen Filled up the symphony b... ...45-46 below. Such instances are comparatively rare in Scott’s poetry. Some rhymes that appear to be imperfect are to be explained by peculiarities of ... ...es of valiant men. There is not almost any other argu- ment, whereof their rhymes intreat. They speak the ancient French language, altered a little.”[... ...the same as that of the poem, the only variation being in the order of the rhymes. 546. Bracken. Fern; “the Pteris aquilina” (T aylor). 553. Fancy now... ....” 713. Ave Maria! etc. “The metrical peculiarity of this song is that the rhymes of the even lines of the first quatrain (or set of four lines) are t... ...hen appear to pass into the romance of the next century, and that into the nursery tale of the subsequent ages. Such an investigation, while it went g...

...itary set, Exceedingly remarkable at times, But not at all adapted to my rhymes. Nelson was once Britannia’s god of war, And still should be... ...They mean to scold, and very often do; When poets say, ‘I’ve written fifty rhymes,’ They make you dread that they ‘ll recite them too; In gang... ...ing youth, which I have spent betimes— My heart in passion, and my head on rhymes. What is the end of Fame? ‘t is but to fill A certain portio... ...understood, I can’t help putting in my claim to praise The four first rhymes are Southey’s every line: For God’s sake, reader! take them not ... ...s sing their loves In liquid lines mellifluously bland, And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves, They little think what mischief is i... ...ke an invasion of their babes and sucklings; And all who have seen a human nursery, saw How mothers love their children’s squalls and chucklings...

...she occupied a pinnacle for Miss Teagle, who had lived on—and from a noble nursery—into a period of diplo- mas and humiliation. Mrs. Ryves sometimes w... ...t (well aware that he had duties more pressing), trying to string together rhymes idiotic enough to make his neighbour’s fortune. 12 Sir Dominick Fer... ... guess how much there was still to learn. To spend his mornings over cheap rhymes for her was certainly to shirk the immediate ques- tion; but there w...

...URSER CHAPTER I—A NURSER CHAPTER I—A NURSER CHAPTER I—A NURSER CHAPTER I—A NURSERY PR Y PR Y PR Y PR Y PROSE OSE OSE OSE OSE ‘And if it be the heart o... ...der care made my life very trying, after I found myself transported to the nursery, scarcely understanding why, accused of having by my naugh- tiness ... ...But, Eddy, I really did!’ However, it was only too well established in the nursery that Clarence’s veracity was on a par with his courage. When taxed ... ...ions of his own, sometimes of a startling nature. He never scandalised the nursery, like Griff, by un- seemly pranks on Sundays, nor by innovations in... ...it, giving particulars of the journey. Emily and Martyn were at tea in the nursery, in a certain awe that hin- dered them from coming down; indeed, Ma... ...ly began reading aloud the page before her, full of the jingling recurring rhymes about Sir Thomas of Kent; but I saw Ellen surreptitiously wipe away ...

...elaide Egremont, coming to consult the head of the es- tablishment about a nursery-governess, saw Alice, and was so much struck with her sweet face, w... ...tion. When the streets were past and Nuttie had aimed her last nods at the nursery parties out walking on the road, she became aware that those cold, ... ...isters, whole and half. He was the only son, except a little fellow in the nursery. And he exhorted his aunt not to be afraid of his step-mother, who ... ...n there would hardly be time to get home! Oh, that’s jolly! I’ll go to the nursery gardens, and get _such_ flowers for the vases!’ Saturday brought Nu... ... came up about the carriage; and as there had been an application for some nursery needment, and moreover black-edged enve- lopes had run short, there... ...ie had been forbidding the misuse of a beautiful elaborate book of nursery rhymes, where Alwyn thought proper to ‘kill’ with repeated stabs the old wo...

... and ductile material, like the modeller’s clay; literature alone is condemned to work in mosaic with finite and quite rigid words. Y ou have seen the... ...d for two senses: a sort of internal ear, quick to perceive ‘unheard melodies’; and the eye, which directs the pen and deciphers the printed phrase. W...

...But all she is and does is awful; odes About this losing of the child; and rhymes And dismal lyrics, prophesying change Beyond all reason: these the ... ...ning easy grace No doubt, for slight delay, remained among us In our young nursery still unknown, the stem Less grain than touchwood, while my honest ...