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The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1]
Caption reads "Here we go round the Mulberry Bush" in The Baby's Opera A book of old Rhymes and The Music by the Earliest Masters, 1877. Artwork by Walter Crane. " Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush " (also titled " Mulberry Bush " or " This Is the Way ") is an English nursery rhyme and singing game. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 7882.
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary. "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary". Illustration by William Wallace Denslow. Nursery rhyme. Published. c. 1744. "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" is an English nursery rhyme. The rhyme has been seen as having religious and historical significance, but its origins and meaning are disputed. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of ...
Jane Taylor. " Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star " is an English lullaby. The lyrics are from an early-19th-century English poem written by Jane Taylor, "The Star". [ 1] The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann.
Jack and Jill. A postcard of the rhyme using Dorothy M. Wheeler 's 1916 illustration Play ⓘ. " Jack and Jill " (sometimes " Jack and Gill ", particularly in earlier versions) is a traditional English nursery rhyme. The Roud Folk Song Index classifies the commonest tune and its variations as number 10266, [ 1] although it has been set to ...
This is very close to the earliest printed version in 1805. A version published in John Bell's, Rhymes of Northern Bards (1812) gives these additional verses: Bobby Shafto's tall and slim, He always dressed so neat and trim; The ladies they all kick at him, Bonny Bobby Shafto. Bobby Shafto's gettin' a bairn, For to dangle on his arm;
Little Jack Horner. William Wallace Denslow ’s illustration of the rhyme, 1902. " Little Jack Horner " is a popular English nursery rhyme with the Roud Folk Song Index number 13027. First mentioned in the 18th century, it was early associated with acts of opportunism, particularly in politics. Moralists also rewrote and expanded the poem so ...
The earliest recorded version of the rhyme appears in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Campaigners from 1698, where a nurse says to her charges: ...and pat a cake Bakers man, so I will master as I can, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and prick it, and throw't into the Oven.