Nursery Rhymes and Traditional Poems
Sing a Song of Sixpence
by Traditional
A poem about blackbirds that get baked in a pie.
A poem about blackbirds that get baked in a pie.
"It may be misery not to sing at all"
The blackbirds that were supposed to be baked in a pie for the king began to sing when the pie was opened. They then flew down to snap off the maid’s nose.
"A song is but a little thing,"
"Your spoken words are roses fine and sweet,"
"When winter covering all the ground"
A sing-song poem that focuses on three sisters dancing and then two mourning for the third.
A donkey wishing to sing like the grasshoppers inquires about their diet. To sing like them he changes his diet to theirs and perishes.
The poet muses upon different sounds and people singing.
Night is for sorrow and dawn is for joy,
"De ol’ time’s gone, de new time’s hyeah"
A poem describing the perils our fathers went through to keep their homeland free.
To hear an oriole sing
A child leaves his favorite place.
A man who loved the Nightingale’s song set a trap for it and captured it. Since nightingales never sing in cages the man decided to eat it. The Nightingale bargained not to be eaten and to be set free. In return he would tell the man 3 things far bettter than eating him.
A cheerful poem about springtime.
Besides the autumn poets sing
"A lilt and a swing, And a ditty to sing,"
"Though the winds be dank,"
"Step wid de banjo an’ glide wid de fiddle,"
"Romance, who loves to nod and sing,"
Thou art my life, by thee I live,
A poem in which the speaker describes a rivulet in his/her commands to it.
O how thy worth with manners may I sing
Thy tones are silver melted into sound,