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Sing-Song: a nursery rhyme book

Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

One hundred and twenty six beautifully written poems about babies and childhood that capture the marvelous wonders of that age. - Summary by Maggie Travers

Genre(s): Poetry

Language: English

Section	Chapter	Reader	Time
Play 01	Angels at the foot	Maggie Travers	00:00:27
Play 02	Love me, --I love you	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:34
Play 03	My baby has a father and a mother	Maggie Travers	00:00:32
Play 04	Our little baby fell asleep	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:30
Play 05	"Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!"	Maggie Travers	00:00:41
Play 06	Baby cry	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:24
Play 07	Eight o'clock	Maggie Travers	00:00:29
Play 08	Bread and milk for breakfast	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:25
Play 09	There's snow on the fields	Maggie Travers	00:00:35
Play 10	Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:31
Play 11	I dug and dug amongst the snow	Maggie Travers	00:00:41
Play 12	A city plum is not a plum	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:30
Play 13	Your brother has a falcon	Maggie Travers	00:00:36
Play 14	Hear what the mournful linnets say	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:35
Play 15	A baby's cradle with no baby in it	Maggie Travers	00:00:33
Play 16	Hop-o'-my-thumb and little Jack Horner	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:28
Play 17	Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth	Maggie Travers	00:00:45
Play 18	O wind, why do you never rest	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:26
Play 19	Crying, my little one, footsore and weary?	Maggie Travers	00:00:50
Play 20	Growing in the vale	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:32
Play 21	A linnet in a gilded cage	Maggie Travers	00:00:37
Play 22	Wrens and robins in the hedge	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:24
Play 23	My baby has a mottled fist	Maggie Travers	00:00:31
Play 24	Why did baby die	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:27
Play 25	If all were rain and never sun	Maggie Travers	00:00:30
Play 26	O wind, where have you been	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:28
Play 27	Brownie, Brownie, let down your milk	Maggie Travers	00:00:36
Play 28	On the grassy banks	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:27
Play 29	Rushes in a watery place	Maggie Travers	00:00:34
Play 30	Minnie and Mattie	Elizabeth Travers	00:01:05
Play 31	Heartsease in my garden bed	Maggie Travers	00:00:39
Play 32	If I were a Queen	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:27
Play 33	What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow	Maggie Travers	00:00:38
Play 34	Stroke a flint, and there is nothing to admire	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:25
Play 35	There is but one May in the year	Maggie Travers	00:00:43
Play 36	The summer nights are short	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:32
Play 37	The days are clear	Maggie Travers	00:00:35
Play 38	Twist me a crown of wind-flowers	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:38
Play 39	Brown and furry	Maggie Travers	00:00:40
Play 40	A toadstool comes up in a night	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:24
Play 41	A pocket handkerchief to hem	Maggie Travers	00:00:42
Play 42	If a pig wore a wig	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:28
Play 43	Seldom "can't"	Maggie Travers	00:00:24
Play 44	One and one are two	Maggie Travers	00:01:20
Play 45	How many seconds in a minute?	Maggie Travers	00:01:04
Play 46	What will you give me for my pound?	Maggie Travers	00:00:34
Play 47	January cold desolate	Maggie Travers	00:00:55
Play 48	What is pink? a rose is pink	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:50
Play 49	Mother shake the cherry tree	Maggie Travers	00:00:37
Play 50	A pin has a head, but has no hair	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:55
Play 51	Hopping frog, hop here and be seen	Maggie Travers	00:00:43
Play 52	Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are	Maggie Travers	00:00:29
Play 53	The city mouse lives in a house	Maggie Travers	00:00:39
Play 54	What does the donkey bray about?	Maggie Travers	00:00:48
Play 55	Three plum buns	Maggie Travers	00:00:33
Play 56	A motherless soft lambkin	Maggie Travers	00:00:37
Play 57	Dancing on the hill-tops	Maggie Travers	00:00:44
Play 58	When fishes set umbrellas up	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:24
Play 59	The peacock has a score of eyes	Maggie Travers	00:00:41
Play 60	Pussy has a whiskered face	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:25
Play 61	The dog lies in his kennel	Maggie Travers	00:00:38
Play 62	If hope grew on a bush	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:30
Play 63	I planted a hand	Maggie Travers	00:00:33
Play 64	Under the ivy bush	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:28
Play 65	I am a King	Maggie Travers	00:00:50
Play 66	There is one that has a head without an eye	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:30
Play 67	If a mouse could fly	Maggie Travers	00:00:41
Play 68	Sing me a song	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:37
Play 69	The lily has an air	Maggie Travers	00:00:33
Play 70	Margaret has a milking-pail	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:32
Play 71	In the meadow--what in the meadow?	Maggie Travers	00:00:42
Play 72	A frisky lamb	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:29
Play 73	Mix a pancake	Maggie Travers	00:00:30
Play 74	The wind has such a rainy sound	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:35
Play 75	Three little children	Maggie Travers	00:00:41
Play 76	Fly away, fly away over the sea	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:29
Play 77	Minnie bakes oaten cakes	Maggie Travers	00:00:36
Play 78	A white hen sitting	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:34
Play 79	Currants on a bush	Maggie Travers	00:00:26
Play 80	Playing at bob cherry	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:39
Play 81	I have but one rose in the world	Maggie Travers	00:00:32
Play 82	Rosy maiden Winifred	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:40
Play 83	Blind from my birth	Maggie Travers	00:00:41
Play 84	When the cows come home the milk is coming	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:34
Play 85	Roses blushing red and white	Maggie Travers	00:00:43
Play 86	"Ding a ding"	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:28
Play 87	A ring upon her finger	Maggie Travers	00:00:39
Play 88	Ferry me across the water	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:37
Play 89	When a mounting skylark sings	Maggie Travers	00:00:36
Play 90	Who has seen the wind?	Elizabeth Travers	00:00:33
Play 91	The horses of the sea	Maggie Travers	00:00:33
Play 92	O sailor, come ashore	Maggie Travers	00:00:32
Play 93	A diamond or a coal?	Maggie Travers	00:00:37
Play 94	An emerald is as green as grass	Maggie Travers	00:00:38
Play 95	Boats sail on the rivers	Maggie Travers	00:00:43
Play 96	The lily has a smooth stalk	Maggie Travers	00:00:44
Play 97	Hurt no living thing	Maggie Travers	00:00:36
Play 98	I caught a little ladybird	Maggie Travers	00:00:46
Play 99	All the bells were ringing	Maggie Travers	00:00:34
Play 100	Wee wee husband	Maggie Travers	00:00:32
Play 101	I have a little husband	Maggie Travers	00:00:33
Play 102	The dear old woman in the lane	Maggie Travers	00:00:41
Play 103	Swift and sure the swallow	Maggie Travers	00:00:28
Play 104	I dreamt I caught a little owl	Maggie Travers	00:00:37
Play 105	What does the bee do?	Maggie Travers	00:00:34
Play 106	I have a Poll parrot	Maggie Travers	00:00:34
Play 107	A house of cards	Maggie Travers	00:00:32
Play 108	The rose with such a bonny blush	Maggie Travers	00:00:28
Play 109	The rose that blushes rosy red	Maggie Travers	00:00:28
Play 110	Oh, fair to see	Maggie Travers	00:00:39
Play 111	Clever little Willie wee	Maggie Travers	00:00:35
Play 112	The peach tree on the southern wall	Maggie Travers	00:00:41
Play 113	A rose has thorns as well as honey	Maggie Travers	00:01:04
Play 114	Is the moon tired? she looks so pale	Maggie Travers	00:00:37
Play 115	If stars dropped out of heaven	Maggie Travers	00:00:36
Play 116	"Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow"	Maggie Travers	00:00:41
Play 117	If the sun could tell us half	Maggie Travers	00:00:31
Play 118	If the moon came from heaven	Maggie Travers	00:00:35
Play 119	O Lady moon, your horns point toward the east	Maggie Travers	00:00:32
Play 120	What do the stars do?	Maggie Travers	00:00:35
Play 121	Motherless baby and babyless mother	Maggie Travers	00:00:24
Play 122	Crimson curtains round my mother's bed	Maggie Travers	00:00:28
Play 123	Baby lies so fast alseep	Maggie Travers	00:00:38
Play 124	I know a baby, such a baby	Maggie Travers	00:00:41
Play 125	Lullaby, oh, lullaby!	Maggie Travers	00:00:42
Play 126	Lie a-bed	Maggie Travers	00:00:32

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