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ALPHABET Mother Goose
A DEWDROP Frank Dempster Sherman
BEES Frank Dempster Sherman
RHYMES. Baa, baa, black sheep Bless you, bless you, burnie bee Bow, wow, wow Bye, baby bunting Mother Goose
STAR LIGHT Unknown
THE LITTLE MOON A.B. White
TO A HONEY-BEE Alice Gary
RHYMES. A cat came fiddling A dillar, a dollar As I was going to St. Ives As I was going up Pippen Hill A swarm of bees in May Mother Goose
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
NONSENSE ALPHABET Edward Lear
THE EGG IN THE NEST Unknown
RHYMES Hey! diddle diddle Pussy sits beside the fire Ding dong bell Mother Goose
DAISIES Frank Dempster Sherman
SPINNING TOP Frank Dempster Sherman
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
RHYMES. Bobby Shafto's gone to sea Every lady in this land Great A, little a Hark, hark Sing a song of sixpence Hickory, dickory dock Hot-cross buns! How does my lady's garden grow? Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top Some little mice sat in a barn to spin If all the world were apple-pie If wishes were horses I have a little sister Mother Goose WHO STOLE THE BIRD'S NEST? Lydia Maria Child RHYMES. I saw a ship a-sailing Jack and Jill went up the hill Little Bo-peep Little boy blue Little girl, little girl Little Jack Horner sat in the corner Little Johnny Pringle had a little pig Little Miss Muffet There was a little man Little Tommy Tacker Mother Goose PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS HAPPY THOUGHT Robert Louis Stevenson THE SUN'S TRAVELS Robert Louis Stevenson MY BED IS A BOAT Robert Louis Stevenson THE SWING Robert Louis Stevenson RHYMES Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John Mistress Mary, quite contrary Old King Cole Old Mother Hubbard Mother Goose RUNAWAY BROOK Eliza Lee Fallen BED IN SUMMER Robert Louis Stevenson AT THE SEASIDE Robert Louis Stevenson THE MEETING OF THE SHIPS Thomas Moore PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS Three little kittens Once I saw a little bird One misty, moisty morning Peter Piper Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-cross Three wise men of Gotham See, saw, sacradown Simple Simon met a pieman Mother Goose
PRETTY COW Jane Taylor
THE STAR Jane Taylor
MARY'S LAMB Sara Josepha Hale
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
RHYMES Solomon Grundy The King of France The man in the wilderness There was a crooked man Tom, Tom, the piper's son There was a little boy There was a man of our town This pig went to market Tom, Tom, of Islington Mother Goose
WEE WILLIE WINKIE William Miller
SINGING Robert Louis Stevenson
THE COW Robert Louis Stevenson
GOOD-NIGHT AND GOOD-MORNING Richard Monckton Milnes
MOTHER'S EYES Mary D.B.Hull
THE LAND OF NOD Robert Louis Stevenson
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
RHYMES When I was a little boy Where are you going, my pretty maid? Who killed Cock Robin Mother Goose
EPITAPH FOR ROBIN REDBREAST Edith Matilda Thomas
PLAY WITH ME Edith Matilda Thomas
THE PIPER William Blake
INFANT JOY William Blake
THE LAMB William Blake
THE LITTLE BOY LOST William Blake
THE LITTLE BOY FOUND William Blake
ON THE VOWELS Jonathan Swift
LETTERS Ralph Waldo Emerson
ON A CIRCLE Jonathan Swift
ARIEL'S SONG William Shakespeare
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
SONG Thomas Hood
YOUTH AND AGE Thomas Hood
UPON SUSANNA'S FEET Robert Herrick
UPON A CHILD THAT DIED Robert Herrick
CHERRY-RIPE Robert Herrick
ANSWER TO A CHILD'S QUESTION Samuel Taylor Coleridge
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
"ONE, TWO, THREE!" Henry Cuyler Bunner
THE BIRD AND ITS NEST Alfred Tennyson
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
WINDY NIGHTS Robert Louis Stevenson
NONSENSE VERSES Edward Lear
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
SONG Robert Burns
SWEET AND LOW Alfred Tennyson
AGAINST IDLENESS AND MISCHIEF Isaac Watts
"BREAK, BREAK, BREAK" Alfred Tennyson
THE ARROW AND THE SONG Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
THE TABLE AND THE CHAIR Edward Lear
THE OWL Alfred Tennyson
THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT Edward Lear
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
FABLE Ralph Waldo Emerson
WRITTEN IN MARCH William Wordsworth
THOSE EVENING BELLS Thomas Moore
TO A BUTTERFLY William Wordsworth
PROVERBS AND POPULAR SAYINGS
LUCY William Wordsworth
LUCY GRAY, OR SOLITUDE William Wordsworth
POOR SUSAN William Wordsworth