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Poetry

18 Selections from Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes (1877)

Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water;
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.

Up Jack got, and home did trot,
As fast as he could caper;
Dame Jill had the job to plaister his knob,
With vinegar and brown paper.

Jill came in and she didL grin
To see his paper plaister,
Mother vex’d did whip her next,
For causing Jack’s disaster.

 

Little Jack Horner

Little Jack Horner sat in a corner,
Eating a Christmas pie;
He put in his thumb, and he took out a plum,
And said, “What a good boy am I!”

 

Little Miss Muffett

     Little Miss Muffett
     She sat on a tuffett,
Eating of curds and whey;
     There came a little spider,
     Who sat down beside her,
And frightened Miss Muffett away.

 

Mary, Mary Quite Contrary

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
Silver bells and cockle-shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.

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