Recorded Poems

By First Line

180 Poems

Author	Title	First Line
A. A. Milne	Teddy Bear	A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise
Mrs. Carter	Nursery Song	As I walked over the hill one day
James Ferguson	Auld Daddy Darkness	Auld Daddy Darkness creeps frae his hole
Anderson Alexander	Cuddle Doon	The bairnies cuddle doon at nicht
Anonymous	The Rabbits	Between the hill and the brook, ook, ook,
A. A. Milne	The Mirror	Between the woods the afternoon is fallen in a golden swoon
Robert Louis Stevenson	Time To Rise	A birdie with a yellow bill hopped upon my window sill
Mary F. Butts	Winter Night	Blow, wind, blow!
Anonymous	Blow, Wind, Blow	Blow, wind, blow! and go, mill, go!
Christina Georgina Rossetti	The Bow That Bridges Heaven	Boats sail on the rivers and ships sail on the seas
Anonymous	Bow-Wow-Wow	Bow-wow-wow! It's the great watch dog.
Walter de la Mare	Bunches of Grapes	"Bunches of grapes," says Timothy:
Anonymous	Alison	Bytuene Mershe ant Averil
Anonymous	The Campbells Are Comin'	The Campbells are comin', Oho, Oho,
Anonymous	Can You?	Can you put the spider's web back in place that once has been swept away
Thomas Campbell	Lord Ullin's Daughter	A chieftain, to the Highlands bound
A. A. Milne	Hoppity	Christopher Robin goes hoppity, hoppity
Anonymous	All Busy	The cock's on the house-top, blowing his horn;
Jean Ingelow	Milking Song	"Cusha! Cusha! Cusha!" calling ere the early dews were falling
Anonymous	Daffy-Down-Dilly	Daffy-Down-Dilly has come up to town
A. A. Milne	Corner-of-the-Street	Down by the corner of the street where the three roads meet
A. A. Milne	Before Tea	Emmeline has not been seen for more than a week
A. A. Milne	The Four Friends	Ernest was an elephant, a great big fellow
Anonymous	A Farmer Went Riding	A farmer went riding upon his gray mare,
John Kendrick Bangs	A Thanksgiving	For summer rain, and winter's sun
Anonymous	A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go	A Frog he would a-wooing go, whether his mother would let him or no,
Anonymous	Grasshopper Green	Grasshopper Green is a comical chap; he lives on the best of fare.
F. C. Woodworth	The Snow Bird	The ground was all covered with snow one day
A. A. Milne	Halfway Down	Halfway down the stairs is a stair where I sit
A. A. Milne	Missing	Has anybody seen my mouse?
Amelia Barr	Thanksgiving	Have you cut the wheat in the blowing fields
Anonymous	Santa Claus	He comes in the night! He comes in the night!
Laura E. Richards	An Old Rat's Tale	He was a rat, and she was a rat,
Robert Louis Stevenson	The Swing	How do you like to go up in a swing
William Stevenson	Jolly Good Ale and Old	I cannot eat but little meat
A. A. Milne	Market Square	I had a penny, a bright new penny
Anonymous	Mr. Nobody	I know a funny little man, as quiet as a mouse
Emily Huntington Miller	The Bluebird	I know the song that the bluebird is singing
Irene Rutherford McLeod	Song from "April"	I know where the wind flowers blow!
Olive Beaupré Miller	The Road to China	I learned today the world is round like my big rubber ball
Wilhelmina Seegmuller	What I Like	I like to ride on a load of hay, to tramp in puddles on a rainy day
Joy Allison	I Love You, Mother	"I love you, mother," said little John. Then, forgetting his work, his cap went on
John Kendrick Bangs	The Little Elf-Man	I met a little Elf-man, once, down where the lilies blow.
A. A. Milne	Puppy and I	I met a man as I went walking
Anonymous	How the Little Kite Learned to Fly	"I never can do it," the little kite said, as he looked at the others high over his head;
A. A. Milne	Independence	I never did, I never did, I never did like
A. A. Milne	If I Were King	I often wish I were a King, and then I could do anything
Charles Kingsley	The Lost Doll	I once had a sweet little doll, dears
Gabriel Setoun	The Ship	I saw a ship a-sailing
Kate Greenaway	I Saw a Ship	I saw a ship that sailed the sea.
A. A. Milne	At Home	I want a soldier (A soldier in a busby)
A. A. Milne	Sand-Between-the-Toes	I went down to the shouting sea, taking Christopher down with me
A. A. Milne	The Wrong House	I went into a house, and it wasn't a house
William Brighty Rands	The Peddler's Caravan	I wish I lived in a caravan
Robert Louis Stevenson	A Good Boy	I woke before the morning, I was happy all the day
Judge Parry	I Would Like You for a Comrade	I would like you for a comrade, for I love you, that I do,
A. A. Milne	Growing Up	I've got shoes with grown up laces
Clara Doty Bates	Who Likes the Rain?	"I," said the duck, "I call it fun, for I have my little red rubbers on;
A. A. Milne	The Island	If I had a ship, I'd sail my ship, I'd sail my ship through Eastern seas
A. A. Milne	Politeness	If people ask me, I always tell them
A. A. Milne	Brownie	In a corner of the bedroom is a great big curtain
A. A. Milne	The Invaders	In careless patches through the wood the clumps of yellow primrose stood
Edith M. Thomas	Shoe or Stocking	In Holland, children set their shoes
Anonymous	God's Care	In the pleasant sunny meadows, where the buttercups are seen
Robert Burns	For a' That	Is there, for honest poverty
Henry C. Bunner	One, Two, Three	It was an old, old, old, old lady,
A. A. Milne	Disobedience	James James Morrison Morrison Weatherby George Dupree
Robert Burns	John Anderson	John Anderson, my jo, John,
A. A. Milne	Happiness	John had great big waterproof boots on
A. A. Milne	Jonathan Jo	Jonathan Jo has a mouth like an 'O'
A. A. Milne	The King's Breakfast	The King asked the Queen, and the Queen asked the Dairymaid
Anonymous	Sir Patrick Spens	The king sits in Dunfermline town,
Anonymous	The Robber Kitten	A kitten once to its mother said, "I'll never more be good,
George MacDonald	A Verse	The lightning and thunder, they go and they come
A. A. Milne	In the Fashion	A lion has a tail and a very fine tail
Lydia Maria Child	The Little Maiden and the Little Bird	"Little bird! little bird! come to me!
A. A. Milne	Vespers	Little Boy kneels at the foot of the bed
Laura E. Richards	Little Brown Bobby	Little Brown Bobby sat on the barn floor
Edith Nesbit	Baby Seed Song	Little brown seed, oh! little brown brother
Anonymous	Little Jack Frost	Little Jack Frost went up the hill, watching the stars and the moon so still
Kate Greenaway	Little Wind	Little wind, blow on the hill top, Little wind, blow down the plain
Celia Thaxter	Lock the Dairy Door	"Lock the dairy door! Lock the dairy door!
Anonymous	London Bridge	London bridge is broken down,
Anonymous	The Man in the Moon	The Man in the Moon as he sails the sky is a very remarkable skipper,
William Douglas	Annie Laurie	Maxwelton braes are bonnie where early fa's the dew
Mary F. Butts	Dewdrops	A million little diamonds sparkled on the trees
Christina Georgina Rossetti	Minnie and Mattie	Minnie and Mattie and fat little May
Matthias Barr	Moon, So Round and Yellow	Moon, so round and yellow looking from on high
Robert Burns	My Heart's in the Highlands	My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;
Anonymous	My Maid Mary	My maid Mary she minds the dairy,
Hugh Miller	The Babie	Nae shoon to hide her tiny taes
Anonymous	The North Wind Doth Blow	The north wind doth blow and we shall have snow
Robert Burns	My Jean	Of a' the airts the wind can blaw
Robert Louis Stevenson	Singing	Of speckled eggs the birdie sings
Laura E. Richards	A Valentine	Oh! little loveliest lady mine
Laura E. Richards	Peterkin Pout and Gregory Grout	"Oh, Peterkin Pout and Gregory Grout are two little goblins black,
Anonymous	The Light-Hearted Fairy	Oh, who is so merry, so merry, heigh ho!
Anonymous	Old Dame Cricket	Old Dame Cricket, down in a thicket, brought up her children nine
Anna E. Skinner	Old King Winter	Old King Winter's on his throne in robes of ermine white
Anonymous	Dame Duck's First Lecture on Education	Old Mother Duck has hatched a brood of ducklings, small and callow;
Anonymous	Once I Saw a Little Bird	Once I saw a little bird come hop, hop, hop.
Elizabeth Prentiss	Long Time Ago	Once there was a little Kitty, white as the snow
A. A. Milne	The Three Foxes	Once upon a time there were three little foxes
A. A. Milne	Nursery Chairs	One of the chairs is South America
Margaret Johnson	A Bonny Boat	One, two, three! A bonny boat I see
Olive A. Wadsworth	Over in the Meadow	Over in the meadow in a nest built of sticks
Lydia Maria Child	Thanksgiving Day	Over the river and through the wood
Sir Walter Scott	Gathering Song of Donald Dhu	Pibroch of Donuil Dhu
Anonymous	Pussy-Cat Mew	Pussy-Cat Mew jumped over a coal
Robert Louis Stevenson	The Rain	The rain is raining all around
Laura E. Richards	Bird Song	The robin sings of willow-buds
Eugene Field	The Rock-a-By Lady	The Rock-a-By Lady from Hushaby Street comes stealing; comes creeping
Josiah Gilbert Holland	Rockaby, Lullaby	Rockaby, lullaby, bees on the clover!
Lucy Larcom	Sir Robin	Rollicking Robin is here again.
Celia Thaxter	Jack Frost	Rustily creak the crickets
Anonymous	How To Get a Breakfast	Said the first little chick, with a queer little squirm,
Robert Burns	Bannockburn	Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled
Wilhelmina Seegmuller	Seven Little Chicks	Seven little chicks go, "Peep, peep, peep,"
A. A. Milne	Daffodowndilly	She wore her yellow sun-bonnet
George Gascoigne	A Lover's Lullaby	Sing lullaby, as women do, wherewith they bring their babes to rest
A. A. Milne	Bad Sir Brian Botany	Sir Brian had a battleaxe with great big knobs on
A. A. Milne	Summer Afternoon	Six brown cows walk down to drink
Elizabeth Prentiss	Cradle Song	Sleep, baby, sleep! Thy father's watching the sheep
Isabel Eccelstone Mackay	Spring's Waking	A snowdrop lay in the sweet, dark ground.
Anonymous	Some Little Mice	Some little mice sat in a barn to spin;
Anonymous	A Pretty Game	The sun and the rain in fickle weather
Anonymous	Goldenrod	Tell me, sunny goldenrod, growing everywhere,
A. A. Milne	At the Zoo	There are lions and roaring tigers, and enormous camels and things
Mary Howliston	Our Flag	There are many flags in many lands,
A. A. Milne	Knights and Ladies	There is in my old picture-book a page at which I like to look
A. A. Milne	The Alchemist	There lives an old man at the top of the street
A. A. Milne	The Dormouse and the Doctor	There once was a Dormouse who lived in a bed
Wilhelmina Seegmuller	There Was a Little Robin	There was a little robin sat singing in a tree
Laura E. Richards	Rosy Posy	There was a little Rosy, and she had a little nosy
Anonymous	The Green Grass Growing All Around	There was a tree stood in the ground, the prettiest tree you ever did see
Anonymous	Bimble, Bamble, Bumble	There was an old woman who rode on a broom,
Anonymous	Three Little Maidens	There were three little maidens as busy as elves,
A. A. Milne	Shoes and Stockings	There's a cavern in the mountain where the old men meet
Jean Ingelow	Seven Times One	There's no dew left on the daisies and clover
Kate Greenaway	To the Sun Door	They saw it rise in the morning, they saw it set at night
A. A. Milne	Buckingham Palace	They're changing guard at Buckingham Palace
Gabriel Setoun	How the Flowers Grow	This is how the flowers grow: I have watched them and I know
Anonymous	Three Little Owlets	Three little owlets in a hollow tree
Sir Walter Scott	The Bonnets o' Bonnie Dundee	To the Lords o' Convention 't was Claver'se who spoke
Lydia Maria Child	Who Stole the Bird's Nest?	"To-whit! to-whit! to-whee! Will you listen to me?
Lizzie M. Hadley	The Rainbow Fairies	Two little clouds one summer's day
Anonymous	The Quarrelsome Kittens	Two little kittens, one stormy night, began to quarrel, and then to fight;
Oliver Herford	Elf and Dormouse	Under a toadstool crept a wee Elf
Anonymous	Cherries	Under the trees, the farmer said, smiling and shaking his wise old head
Kate Greenaway	My Robin	Under the window is my garden
Robert Tennant	Wee Davie Daylicht	Wee Davie Daylicht keeks ower the sea
Robert Burns	To a Mountain Daisy	Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flower,
Robert Burns	To a Mouse	Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie,
Christina Georgina Rossetti	What Can I Give Him?	What can I give Him? Poor as I am?
Henry Abbey	What Do We Plant?	What do we plant when we plant the tree? We plant the ship, which will cross the sea
A. A. Milne	Little Bo-Peep and Little Boy Blue	"What have you done with your sheep, Little Bo-Peep?
A. A. Milne	Rice Pudding	What is the matter with Mary Jane?
Anonymous	Buttercup	What makes the buttercup so yellow?
A. A. Milne	The Christening	What shall I call my dear little dormouse?
Anonymous	April	When April was asked whether she could bring reliable weather
Laurence Alma-Tadema	The Robin	When father takes his spade to dig
Anonymous	When I Was a Little Boy	When I was a little boy, I lived by myself
Anonymous	Robin Hood and the Ranger	When Phoebus had melted the sickles of ice, and likewise the mountains of snow
Charles D. G. Roberts	When the Sleepy Man Comes	When the sleepy man comes with the dust on his eyes,
A. A. Milne	Twinkletoes	When the sun shines through the leaves of the apple-tree
Fred E. Weatherly	The Dustman	When the toys are growing weary
Marjorie Barrows	Finding Fairies	When the winds of March are wakening the crocuses and crickets
A. A. Milne	Lines and Squares	Whenever I walk in a London street, I'm ever so careful to watch my feet
Robert Louis Stevenson	Windy Nights	Whenever the moon and stars are set
A. A. Milne	Spring Morning	Where am I going? I don't quite know
Thomas Hood	Precocious Piggy	"Where are you going to, you little pig?"
A. A. Milne	Water-Lilies	Where the water-lilies go to and fro
Kate Greenaway	Somewhere Town	Which is the way to Somewhere Town?
Anonymous	White Sheep	White sheep, white sheep, on a blue hill
Dinah Mulock	The New Year	Who comes dancing over the snow
Christina Georgina Rossetti	Who Has Seen the Wind?	Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you
Kate Greenaway	Will You Be My Little Wife?	Will you be my little wife if I ask you? Do!
Anonymous	The Clucking Hen	"Will you take a walk with me, my little wife, to-day?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	Song	The wind blows east, the wind blows west,
Robert Burns	The Banks o' Doon	Ye banks and braes o' bonnie Doon,