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by Catherine "Kate" Greenaway (1846 - 1901)

Polly's, Peg's, and Poppety's
Language: English 
Polly's, Peg's, and Poppety's
  Mamma was kind and good.
She gave them each, one happy day,
  A little scarf and hood.

A bonnet for each girl she bought;
  To shield them from the sun;
They wore them in the snow and rain;
  And thought it mighty fun;

But sometimes there were naughty boys,
  Who called to them at play,
And made this rude remark -- " My eye!
  Three Grannies out to-day!"

About the headline (FAQ)

Confirmed with Kate Greenaway, Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children, New York: George Routledge & Sons, [1880], page 41.


Text Authorship:

  • by Catherine "Kate" Greenaway (1846 - 1901), no title, appears in Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children, first published 1879 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in German (Deutsch), a translation by Kate Freiligrath Kroeker (1845 - 1904) , no title, appears in Am Fenster in Bildern und Versen von Kate Greenaway ; composed by Ernst Frank.
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