Nursery Rhymes and Poems

Oh, where do you come from,
You little drops of rain,
Pitter- patter, pitter- patter,
Down the window-pane?
They won’t let me walk,
They won’t let me play,
And they won’t let me go
Out of doors at all to day.
They put away my playthings
Because I broke them all,
And then they locked up all my bricks,
And took away my ball.
Tell me little [...]

Little polly flinders
Sat among the cinders,
Warming her pretty little toes.
Her mother came and caught her,
And whipped her little daughter
For spoiling her nice new clothes.

Little Nancy Etticoat
With a white petticoat,
And a red nose;
She has no feet or hands,
The longer she stands,
The shorter she grows.

I had a little moppet,
I kept it in my pocket
And fed it on corn and hay;
There came a proud beggar
And swore he would wed her.
And stole my little moppet away,
And through the wood she ran, she ran,
And through the wood she ran.
All the long winter she followed the hunter,
And never was heard of again.

Little Miss Patty and Master Paul,
Have found two snails on the garden wall.
‘These snails,’ said Paul,
‘How slow they walk,
A great deal slower than we can talk.’
‘Make haste, Mr Snail travel quicker I pray,
In a race with our tongues,
You’d be beaten today’.

Little Miss Muffet
sat on a tuffet
eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider
and sat down beside her.
And frightened Miss Muffet away

Little maid, pretty maid, whither goest thou?
“Down in the forest to milk my cow.”
Shall I go with thee? “No, not now;
When I send for thee then come thou.”

Little King Boggen, he built a fine hall,
Pie-crust and pastry-crust, that was the wall;
The windows were made of black puddings and white,
And slated with pan-cakes, you ne’er saw the like!

Here I am,
Little Jumping Joan.
When nobody’s with me,
I am always alone.

A little Jenny wren,
Was sitting by the shed.
She wagged her tail,
And nodded with her head.
She wagged with her tail,
And nodded with her head.
As little Jenny wren,
Was sitting by the shed.