Nursery Rhymes and Poems

Little Tommy Tucker
Sings for his supper:
What shall he eat?
White bread and butter.
How shall he cut it
Without a knife?
How can he marry
Without a wife?

Tommy thumb, Tommy thumb,
Where are you?
Here I am, Here I am,
How are you?
Peter pointer, Peter pointer,
Where are you?
Here I am, Here I am,
How are you?
Toby tall, Toby tall,
Where are you?
Here I am, Here I am,
How are you?
Ruby ring, Ruby ring,
Where are you?
Here I am, Here I am,
How are you?
Baby small, Baby small,
Where are you?
Here I [...]

As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks
Were walking out one Sunday,
Says Tommy Snooks to Bessy Brooks,
“Wilt marry me on Monday?”

Tom Tom the pipers son
Stole a pig and away he ran,
The pig was eat and Tom was beat
And Tom went roaring down the street

Tom tied a kettle to the tail of a cat,
Jill put a stone in a blind man’s hat,
Bob threw his grandmother down the stairs;
And they all grew up ugly, and nobody cares.

If two may read aright
These rhymes of old delight
And house and garden play,
You two, my cousins, and you only, may.
You in a garden green
With me were king and queen,
Were hunter, soldier, tar,
And all the thousand things that children are.
Now in the elders’ seat
We rest with quiet feet,
And from the window-bay
We watch the children, our successors, [...]

Part 1
Some day soon this rhyming volume,
if you learn with proper speed,
Little Louis Sanchez, will be given you to read.
Then you shall discover,
that your name was printed down
By the English printers, long before, in London town.
In the great and busy city where
the East and West are met,
All the little letters did the English printer set;
While [...]

The red room with the giant bed
Where none but elders laid their head;
The little room where you and I
Did for awhile together lie
And, simple suitor, I your hand
In decent marriage did demand;
The great day nursery, best of all,
With pictures pasted on the wall
And leaves upon the blind,
A pleasant room wherein to wake
And hear the leafy [...]

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig,
Home again, home again, jiggety-jig.
To market, to market, to buy a fat hog,
Home again, home again, jiggety-jog.
To market, to market, to buy a plum bun,
Home again, home again, market is done.

To market, to market
to buy a fat pig.
Home again, home again
Jiggity jig
To market, to market
to buy a fat hog.
Home again, home again
Jiggity jog