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"Little Boy Blue" is a poem by Eugene Field about the death of a child, a sentimental but beloved theme in 19th-century poetry. Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for ...
Little Boy Blue, Come blow your horn. The sheep's in the meadow, The cow's in the corn. Where is the boy Who looks after the sheep? He's under the haystack, Fast asleep. Will you wake him? No, not I, For if I do, He's sure to cry.
The first published book of children's nursery rhymes was likely Tommy Thumb's Song Book, published in 1744 by a woman named Mrs. Cooper. [1] Most of the nursery rhymes contained in the Song Book are familiar to modern audiences, and were most likely passed through the oral tradition before being written down. [1]
The original English nursery rhymes that correspond to the numbered poems in Mots d'Heures: Gousses, Rames are as follows: [3] Humpty Dumpty; Old King Cole; Hey Diddle Diddle; Old Mother Hubbard; There Was a Little Man and He Had a Little Gun; Hickory Dickory Dock; Jack Sprat; Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater; There Was a Crooked Man; Little Miss ...
Lavender's Blue; Lazy Mary, Will You Get Up; The Lion and the Unicorn; Little Bo-Peep; Little Boy Blue; Little Bunny Foo Foo; Little Jack Horner; Little Miss Muffet; Little Poll Parrot; Little Robin Redbreast; Lloyd George Knew My Father (song) London Bridge Is Falling Down; Lucy Locket
Illustration of "Hey Diddle Diddle", a well-known nursery rhyme. A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century. The term Mother Goose rhymes is interchangeable with nursery rhymes. [1]
Some nursery rhymes turn up in disguise: The Moon shines Bright, The Stars give a light, And you may kiss A pretty girl At ten a clock at night. This is an earlier version of: When I was a little boy My mammy kept me in, Now I am a great boy, I'm fit to serve the king. I can handle a musket, And I can smoke a pipe. And I can kiss a pretty girl
Little Boy Blue" is a nursery rhyme. Little Boy Blue may also refer to: Little Boy Blue (1912 film), a silent one-reel film; Little Boy Blue, a drama starring Ryan Phillippe, Nastassja Kinski, and John Savage; Little Boy Blue, a 1981 novel by Edward Bunker; Little Boy Blue, the title of the 1911 Broadway production of the 1910 operetta Lord Piccolo