Little Songs and Poems

All little poems, songs and rhyming text at this blog is in
the public domain unless it appears on a video.

"There was an old woman who lived in a shoe: 
She had so many children she didn't know what to do."

      I always envied that old woman her opportunity. I should have set those children all down on little stools in a neat circle around the shoe, and read to them out of poetry-books. And they would all have been as good as gold too.

      Perhaps you think this is the romantic dream of one who knows not the ways of a child? But it isn't a dream at all; it is a fact founded upon an axiom which I, and many wiser than I, have evolved out of experience, namely: "Most normal children love poetry." Moreover, most normal children, as well as most grown-ups, are good when they have what they like. Consequently, my circle of children around the show would, in all  probability, have been as good as gold.

      To return for a moment to my axiom. If children did not, as a rule, love poetry,--verses, jingles, anything with a rhythm to it, --why should our kindergartens devote so much time to the little songs and poems which the children learn so eagerly? Why should half the children illustrated editions of all kinds of verses, from Mother Goose and Edward Lear to Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin"? Why should it be so rare a thing for any well-brought-up infant to parts to attain his fifth year without the accomplishment of mounting a stool and reciting "the friendly cow all red and white," or some other infants' classic? Why should Sunday schools teach religion in children's hymns and other verses? And why, even, should mothers, until modern times, have rocked their babies rhythmically to sleep to the sound of a measured lullaby? Magee.

Little Songs and Poems: For Reading, Reciting, Remembering and some for Coloring:

1. Paper Doll Poem  by Pauline King
2. The Princess Goes to Ride by Margaret Beauchamp 
   
3. Goodnight by Crawford Neil
4. The Clothes-Pin Dollies  by Camilla J. Knight 
5. My Doll by Author Unknown 
6. The Doll Bed by Minerva Hunter
   
7. The Sand Man  by Dodge and Stilwell 
8. The Fairy Ching Lu and His Bothersome Queue by Anna M. Scott
   
9. One & One
10. A Fairy Necklace by Enid Blyton
11. My Three Dolls by Isabel Allardyce  
12. Little Miss Limberkin
13. At the Doll's Hospital by Anne P. L. Field
    
14. Wake Up Birdie!
15. A Valentine for Old Dolls by Rachel Field
16. Creation by Edward P. Butler 
17. Christmas Song
    
18. Fellow Travelers by Pauline Frances Camp
19. Mr. Big Toe 
20. Dolly's Wings by Laura Loring
21. I'm Such A Little Tot by J. H. G.
22. A Child's Troubles from St. Nicholas
23. Hang Up The Baby's Stocking
24. Charley Boy by Eliza Lee Follen
25. Grandma Always Does by Unknown Author
26. The Long Ago Doll by Marjorie Barrows
27. A Teeny-Tiny Story
28. Sleepy Dandelions by Harriot Putnam
29. Dolly's Toilet
30. Going To Bed by Unknown Author
31. Little Whimpy by Mary Mapes Dodge
32. The Little Angel from Melodies of Childhood
33. The Naughty Kitten-Cat by Florence Crocker Comfort
34. A Thanksgiving Dinner
35. December by Arthur Jerome
36. The Coming Storm by William Brightly Rands
37. Stop, Stop, Pretty Water! by Eliza Lee Follen
38. Dolly Asleep by Keeler
39. Two Little Beds by Elizabeth Ellis Scantlebury
40. A Housekeeper's Troubles by Unknown Author 
41. Birdies With Broken Wings 
42. To The Fire-Fly by Thomas Moore
43. The Paris Doll by Caroline Morgan
44. Dolly Takes Tea by Albert Bigelow Paine 
45. A Dolls Wedding by Lucy Larcom
46. Five Kernels of Corn
47. October Thoughts by Unknown Author
48. Merry Autumn Days by Charles Dickens 
49. Dolly's Doctor
50. The Spinning Wheel at Rest by Edward A. Jenks
51. The Old Home by Arthur Burdick
52. An Old Rat's Tale by Author Unknown 
53. The Night Before Thanksgiving by Eva Lovett Carson 
54. A Thanksgiving Acrostic by Susan M. Best  
55. Dance Of The Months
56. The Silent Pool by Enid Blyton
57. Christmas Morning by Burges Johnson
58. The New Year by Luranah Hammond 
59. Naming The Doll by Caroline Morgan
60. "I had a little doll"
61.  Ode To The New Year by Charlotte C. Davenport 
62. Birthdays by Maud Keary
63. To Father Christmas by Maud Keary 
64. "If I were an artist"...
65. Asleep by Edward A. Jenks 
66. A Jewish Home by Jessie Sampter 
67. The Good Night by John Martin
68. "Company Manners"
69. The Lost Doll by Charles Kingsley  
70. The Moon at Tea-Time by Enid Blyton
71. Mama Old Year and Baby New by L. L. Greene Richards
72. Flower Fairies by Philip Bourke Marston
73. Shamrock Song by Katherine Tynan
74. St. Patrick's Day Jig and Sheet Music
    
75. Rebecca
76. Your Heart is A Music Box by Frances Sargent Osgood
77. The White Rabbits by Edith Campbell
78. Waking to Life by Hannah Kohaus
79. The Sewing Doll by Amelia De Wolfjers 
80. The Paper House by Harriet McLear 
81. The Rhyme of The House by Grace L. Klock
82. Taking Tea by Author Unknown
83. Free Children's Hymns for The Christian Home
84. Learning Their Letters
85. On Strike by Enid Blyton
86. Sabbath Morning
87. The Noah's Ark by Katherine Pyle 
88. A Ghost! by Elizabeth Betts 
89. The Naughty Doll
90. The Bear Hunt by Margaret Widdemer 
91. The Nicest One
92. Teddy Brown-Bear by Florence M. Pettee
    
93. Dolly's Lesson
94. Mother's Pincushion by Harriet Hunting Pierson
95. Dolly's Pocket
96. The Old Doll by Seegmiller
    
97. Since Will Turned Into a Boy... by F. A. Steele
98. Dolly's Mamma 
99. The Merry-Go-Round by Clinton Scollard
    
100. The Hollyhock Fairy by M. D. Cole
101. Tomorrow's The First of May by Pauline More Wetzel 
102. May Dance by Josephine Van Dolzen Pease
103. The May-Day Piper by Anna Medary 
104. Democracy by Isabel L. Whitney
105. Growing... by Frances Camp Duggar
106. The New Doll by Seegmiller 
107. Lullaby by Margaret Mitchell Wilcox
108. Sunbeams by Edith Lombard Squires
109. Birds In Winter by Mrs. A.A. Whetstone
110. When Mother was a little girl by Anna Medary 
111. The Bird House by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
112. Summering by Blanche Elizabeth Wade 
113. Our Sand Pile by Anna Medary
114. A Lit-tle Moth-er
115. April by Eleanor Hammond
     
116. The Rainbow Land by Bertha Carman Herbst
117. Indian Children by Annette Wynne
118. Caterpillar On The Wall by Marion Ryan
119. Parasol by Helen Wing 
120. Did You Know? by Louise Marshall Haynes
121. April Fool by Anna Medary
122. The Land of Fairy Tales
123. Spring by Betty Alsterlund 
124. Mud Pies author unknown
     
125. Grandma's Specs by Edith White
126. The Howl Wind by Winifred V. Jordan
127.  A Mis-take Poem author unknown 
128. The Fairy School by Marjorie Barrows
     
129. The Popping Corn Poem
130. The Two Dollies by F. K.
131. Waiting

More About Poetry:

• Why Little Children Love Poetry
• One Reason Older Children Dislike Poetry Is Because They Don't Read It Well
• The Schools Can Help Them Love Poetry
• But the Home Can Do Even More in This Direction
• Another Reason for the Dislike of Poetry Is Because It Meets No Felt Want
• How to Cause the Need of Poetry to Be Felt
• The Value, for Children, of Different Classes of Poetry 

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