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

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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