Traditional poems and songs for young children
Collections
edit- Tommy Thumb's Song Book, 1744, by Nurse Lovechild.
- Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles, c. 1820 by Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick.
- The Crooked Man And Other Rhymes, 1851.
- Nursery Rhymes, 1860.
- Nursery Rhymes, c. 1880.
- French Nursery Rhymes, 1881.
- A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes, 1895 by Sabine Baring-Gould.
- The Baby's Opera, 1900 by Edmund Evans and Walter Crane
- A Book of Nursery Rhymes, 1901 by Charles Welsh.
- The Real Mother Goose, 1916 by Blanche Fisher Wright. (transcription project)
- The Child's Own Music Book, 1918 edited by Albert Ernest Wier. (transcription project)
- Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes, 1922 by Beatrix Potter.
Individual works
edit- A-Hunting We Will Go
- Aiken Drum
- All Around the Mulberry Bush
- Baa Baa Black sheep
- Bow Wow Wow
- The Boy and the Owl
- Brow Bender
- Bye, baby Bunting
- The Carrion Crow
- Cock, Cock, Cock, Cock, I've Laid an Egg
- Cock-a-doodle-do
- Cock Robin and Jenny Wren
- Cross Patch
- The Cuckoo
- Dame Get Up and Bake Your Pies
- Dance a Baby Diddy
- Ding Dong Bell
- Doctor Faustus Was a Good Man
- Elizabeth, Elspeth, Betsy, and Bess
- The Frog and the Crow
- Frog Went A-Courting
- Gang and hear the gowk yell
- Girls and Boys Come Out To Play
- Great, Wide, Beautiful, Wonderful World by William Brighty Rands
- Good King Arthur
- Goosey Goosey Gander
- Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
- Hey Diddle Diddle
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- Higglety Pigglety, My Black Hen
- Hot Cross Buns
- The House that Jack built
- Humpty Dumpty
- The Hunting of the Wren
- I Had a Little Husband
- I Had a Little Nut Tree
- Jack and Jill
- Jack Sprat
- Jacky, Come Give Me Your Fiddle
- The Jolly Miller of the Dee
- Ladybird Ladybird
- Lavender's Blue
- Little Blue Betty
- Little Bo-Peep
- Little Boy Blue
- Little Jack Horner
- Little Tommy Tucker
- London Bridge
- Lucy Locket
- The Man in the Wilderness
- The Man Who Had Nought
- Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale
- Mistress Mary, Quite Contrary
- Mrs. Bond
- Needles and Pins
- Ninny Nanny Netticoat
- Old Father Grey Beard
- Old King Cole
- Old Mother Hubbard
- Once I saw a Little Bird
- Oranges and Lemons
- Over the Hills and Far Away
- Pat-a-cake
- Pease Porridge Hot
- The Pedlar's Caravan by William Brighty Rands
- Peep Peep
- Pop! Goes the Weasel
- Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat
- Pussy-Cat Sits by the Fire
- The Ram, the Bull, the Heavenly Twins
- Ride Away, Ride Away
- Rock-a-bye Baby
- Row, Row, Row Your Boat
- See Saw, Margery Daw
- Simple Simon (nursery rhyme)
- Sing a Song of Sixpence
- St. Paul's Steeple
- Stalky Jack (1867) by William Brighty Rands
- The Swapping Song
- Taffy was a Welshman
- There was a Lady Loved a Swine
- This Little Pig
- Three Blind Mice
- Three Children Sliding on the Ice
- To market, to market
- Tom Thumb and Nurse by Nurse Lovechild
- Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son
- Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
- Up hill and down dale
- Valentine, Oh, Valentine
- Warm Hands, Warm
- We have a little garden (1922) by Beatrix Potter
- What Are Little Boys Made Of?
- Where are you Going My Pretty Maid
- Who Killed Cock Robin?
- Willie Winkie (1841) by William Miller
- You know that Monday is Sunday's brother
- You Shall Have an Apple