enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Bye, baby Bunting - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bye,_baby_Bunting

    The expression bunting is a term of endearment that may also imply 'plump'. [2] A version of the rhyme was published in 1731 in England. [5] A version in Songs for the Nursery 1805 had the longer lyrics: [citation needed]

  3. Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diddle,_Diddle,_Dumpling...

    Diddle, Diddle, Dumpling, My Son John" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19709. Lyrics. One modern version is:

  4. List of nursery rhymes - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nursery_rhymes

    Included in Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland from 1842. Hot Cross Buns: Great Britain 1767 [43] This originated as an English street cry that was later perpetuated as a nursery rhyme. The words closest to the rhyme that has survived were printed in 1767. Humpty Dumpty: Great Britain 1797 [44]

  5. Briggflatts - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Briggflatts

    The rhyme scheme also changes throughout the poem as the bulk of the text appears in free verse while other lines do contain rhyming patterns. The poem is noted for its use of sound. [ 5 ] Bunting believed that the essential element of poetry is the sound, and that if the sound is right, the listener will hear, enjoy and be moved; and that ...

  6. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_We_Go_Round_the...

    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.

  7. Hey Diddle Diddle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Diddle_Diddle

    In L. Frank Baum's "Mother Goose in Prose", the rhyme was written by a farm boy named Bobby who had just seen the cat running around with his fiddle clung to her tail, the cow jumping over the moon's reflection in the waters of a brook, the dog running around and barking with excitement, and the dish and the spoon from his supper sliding into ...

  8. Rub-a-dub-dub - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub-A-Dub-Dub

    The rhyme is of a type calling out otherwise respectable people for disrespectable actions, in this case, ogling naked ladies – the maids. The nonsense "rub-a-dub-dub" develops a phonetic association of social disapprobation, analogous to "tsk-tsk", albeit of a more lascivious variety.

  9. The Queen of Hearts (poem) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_of_Hearts_(poem)

    The King of Hearts. Illustration by W. W. Denslow. There has been speculation about a model for the Queen of Hearts. In The Real Personage of Mother Goose, Katherine Elwes Thomas claims the King and Queen of Hearts are based on Elizabeth of Bohemia and the events that resulted in the outbreak of the Thirty Years War.