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Available Poems in Sing-song: a nursery rhyme book (by Christina Georgina Rossetti )

[Complete]

  • [Unknown Title]  (Mary Grant Carmichael) [x]
  • A baby's cradle with no baby in it 
  • A city plum is not a plum 
  • A diamond or a coal?  (Henry George Ley)
  • A frisky lamb 
  • A house of cards 
  • A linnet in a gilded cage  (Gerald Finzi, Hilda M. Grieveson)
  • All the bells were ringing  (Charles Wood)
  • A motherless soft lambkin  (Sidney Homer, Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir, Cecil Sharman)
  • and 1 are 2 
  • An emerald is as green as grass  (Charles Wood)
  • Angels at the foot  (Charles Wood)
  • A pin has a head, but has no hair  (Charles Harford Lloyd)
  • A pocket handkerchief to hem  (Sidney Homer, Harriet Ware)
  • A ring upon her finger 
  • A rose has thorns as well as honey  (Charles Harford Lloyd)
  • A toadstool comes up in a night 
  • A white hen sitting  (Percy Carter Buck, Sir)
  • Baby cry  (Sidney Homer)
  • Baby lies so fast asleep 
  • Blind from my birth  (John Ireland)
  • Boats sail on the rivers  (Sidney Homer, Hilda May Sarson, Marlys Swinger, Charles Wood)
  • Bread and milk for breakfast  (Grace Wilbur Conant)
  • Brown and furry  (Jean Berger, né Arthur Schloßberg, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir, Netty Simons)
  • Brownie, Brownie, let down your milk 
  • Clever little Willie wee 
  • Crimson curtains round my mother's bed 
  • Crying, my little one, footsore and weary?  (John Ireland, Geoffrey Molyneux Palmer)
  • Currants on a bush  (I. T. Wilson)
  • Dancing on the hill-tops  (Gerald Finzi, Sidney Homer, Craig Sellar Lang, Eleanor Smith)
  • Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush  (Gerald Finzi, Sidney Homer, Hilda May Sarson)
  • Ding a ding," 
  • Eight o'clock  (Allan Blank, Sidney Homer, Herbert Norman Howells)
  • Ferry me across the water  ([more than ten composers]) GER
  • Fly away, fly away over the sea  (Susanne Abbuehl, Anonymous/Unidentified Artist, Grace Wilbur Conant, Walford Davies, Sir, Imogen Clare Holst) GER
  • Good-bye in fear, good-bye in sorrow  (Jean Berger, né Arthur Schloßberg, Ossip Salomonovich Gabrilovich, John Ireland, Horatio William Parker)
  • Growing in the vale  (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist, Imogen Clare Holst, Cecil Sharman, Alfred Jethro Silver, Newton Swift, Felix Harold White)
  • Heartsease in my garden bed  (R. T. White)
  • Hear what the mournful linnets say  (Emily Daymond)
  • Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth  (Alys Eliza Bentley, John Frederick Bridge, Jane Morris, Arthur Somervell, Sir, Constance Virtue)
  • Hop-o'-my-thumb and little Jack Horner 
  • Hopping frog, hop here and be seen  (Charles Macpherson)
  • How many seconds in a minute? 
  • Hurt no living thing  (Sidney Homer)
  • I am a King  (Craig Sellar Lang)
  • I caught a little ladybird  (Felix Gerald Swinstead)
  • I dreamt I caught a little owl 
  • I dug and dug amongst the snow  (Walter Galpin Alcock, John Ireland)
  • If all were rain and never sun  (Martin Akerman)
  • If a mouse could fly  (Thomas Frederick Dunhill)
  • If a pig wore a wig  (Grace Wilbur Conant, Walter Parratt)
  • If hope grew on a bush  (Thomas Frederick Dunhill, Hilda May Sarson)
  • If I were a Queen  (Newel Kay Brown, Charles Macpherson, Felix Gerald Swinstead, Ralph Vaughan Williams)
  • If stars dropped out of heaven 
  • If the moon came from heaven 
  • If the sun could tell us half  (William Henry Harris, Sir)
  • I have a little husband 
  • I have a Poll parrot 
  • I have but one rose in the world 
  • I know a baby, such a baby  (William Henry Harris, Sir, Felix Harold White)
  • In the meadow -- what in the meadow?  (Sidney Homer, Vally Weigl, née Pick)
  • I planted a hand 
  • Is the moon tired? she looks so pale  (Edward Thomas Chapman, Alexander Campbell MacKenzie, Sir, Ivan Phillip, Netty Simons, Felix Gerald Swinstead)
  • January cold desolate 
  • Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!"  (Thomas Frederick Dunhill, Sidney Homer)
  • Lie a-bed,/ Sleepy head  (Sidney Homer, Charles Wood)
  • Love me, - I love you  (Thomas Frederick Dunhill, Sidney Homer, John Ireland, Martin Edward Fallas Shaw, Felix Gerald Swinstead, Hanna van Vollenhoven Vories, as Hanna Vollenhoven)
  • Lullaby, oh, lullaby!  ([more than ten composers])
  • Margaret has a milking-pail  (George Dyson, Gerald Finzi, Shena Eleanor Fraser)
  • Minnie and Mattie  (Sidney Homer, Felix Gerald Swinstead, Harriet Ware)
  • Minnie bakes oaten cakes 
  • Mix a pancake  (Mildred Hinkle Halle, Sidney Homer, Eleanor Smith, Charles Wood)
  • Motherless baby and babyless mother 
  • Mother shake the cherry-tree  (Herbert Norman Howells)
  • My baby has a father and a mother 
  • My baby has a mottled fist 
  • Oh, fair to see  (Gerald Finzi, John Francis Holcombe Read, Martin Edward Fallas Shaw)
  • O Lady Moon, your horns point toward the east  (Alan Hovhaness, Harvey Worthington Loomis)
  • On the grassy banks 
  • O sailor, come ashore  (Karl Wilson Gehrkens)
  • Our little baby fell asleep 
  • O wind, where have you been  (Emily Daymond, John Theodore Livingston Raynor, Eric Harding Thiman)
  • O wind, why do you never rest  (Martin Akerman)
  • Playing at bob cherry 
  • Pussy has a whiskered face  (Hubert S. Middleton (attribution uncertain))
  • Roses blushing red and white  (John Ireland)
  • Rosy maiden Winifred  (Gerald Finzi, Walter Parratt, Cecil Sharman)
  • Rushes in a watery place  (Alan Palmer)
  • Seldom "can't," 
  • Sing me a song  (Laurence Hector Davies, Robert Foresman, Shena Eleanor Fraser, Walter Parratt, James Hotchkiss Rogers)
  • Stroke a flint, and there is nothing to admire 
  • Swift and sure the swallow 
  • The city mouse lives in a house;  (Anonymous/Unidentified Artist)
  • The days are clear  (Herbert Norman Howells)
  • The dear old woman in the lane  (Martin Edward Fallas Shaw)
  • The dog lies in his kennel  (Sidney Homer)
  • The horses of the sea  (Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir)
  • The lily has an air 
  • The lily has a smooth stalk  (Gerald Finzi, Ola Gjeilo, Hilda May Sarson, Adolf Weidig) SPA
  • The peach tree on the southern wall 
  • The peacock has a score of eyes  (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir)
  • There is but one May in the year  (John Ireland) DUT
  • There is one that has a head without an eye 
  • There's snow on the fields  (Gerald Finzi, Hilda M. Grieveson)
  • The rose that blushes rosy red 
  • The rose with such a bonny blush 
  • The summer nights are short  (George Whitefield Chadwick, Charles Villiers Stanford, Sir) GER
  • The wind has such a rainy sound  (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, Sir, Beatrice Macgowan Scott, Arthur Somervell, Sir, Felix Gerald Swinstead, Philip George Wilkinson)
  • Three little children 
  • Three plum buns  (John Francis Holcombe Read)
  • Twist me a crown of wind-flowers  (Basil Harwood, Franz Hüffer, Arthur Somervell, Sir, Leslie Woodgate)
  • Under the ivy bush 
  • Wee wee husband  (Craig Sellar Lang, Martin Edward Fallas Shaw)
  • What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow 
  • What does the bee do?  (Fanny Snow Knowlton)
  • What does the donkey bray about?  (Udo Kasemets)
  • What do the stars do  (Donald Francis Tovey)
  • What is pink? a rose is pink  (Charles Wood)
  • What will you give me for my pound? 
  • When a mounting skylark sings  (Edgar Leslie Bainton, John Ireland, Hermann Frederic Löhr, Arthur Somervell, Sir, Felix Gerald Swinstead)
  • When fishes set umbrellas up 
  • When the cows come home the milk is coming  (Edgar Leslie Bainton, Olive Woodman)
  • Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are  (A. L. Abel, Harvey Bartlett Gaul)
  • Who has seen the wind?  ([more than ten composers])
  • Why did baby die 
  • Wrens and robins in the hedge 
  • Your brother has a falcon  (Francis Hueffer, John Ireland, Dorothy Wauchope Stewart)

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