Sing-Song: a nursery rhyme book
Christina Rossetti
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
One hundred and twenty six beautifully written poems about babies and childhood that capture the marvelous wonders of that age. - Summary by Maggie Travers (1 hr 15 min)
Chapters
Angels at the foot | 0:27 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Love me, --I love you | 0:34 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
My baby has a father and a mother | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Our little baby fell asleep | 0:30 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
"Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!" | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Baby cry | 0:24 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Eight o'clock | 0:29 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Bread and milk for breakfast | 0:25 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
There's snow on the fields | 0:35 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush | 0:31 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
I dug and dug amongst the snow | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
A city plum is not a plum | 0:30 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Your brother has a falcon | 0:36 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Hear what the mournful linnets say | 0:35 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
A baby's cradle with no baby in it | 0:33 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Hop-o'-my-thumb and little Jack Horner | 0:28 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth | 0:45 | Read by Maggie Travers |
O wind, why do you never rest | 0:26 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Crying, my little one, footsore and weary? | 0:50 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Growing in the vale | 0:32 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
A linnet in a gilded cage | 0:37 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Wrens and robins in the hedge | 0:24 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
My baby has a mottled fist | 0:31 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Why did baby die | 0:27 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
If all were rain and never sun | 0:30 | Read by Maggie Travers |
O wind, where have you been | 0:28 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Brownie, Brownie, let down your milk | 0:36 | Read by Maggie Travers |
On the grassy banks | 0:27 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Rushes in a watery place | 0:34 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Minnie and Mattie | 1:05 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Heartsease in my garden bed | 0:39 | Read by Maggie Travers |
If I were a Queen | 0:27 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow | 0:38 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Stroke a flint, and there is nothing to admire | 0:25 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
There is but one May in the year | 0:43 | Read by Maggie Travers |
The summer nights are short | 0:32 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
The days are clear | 0:35 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Twist me a crown of wind-flowers | 0:38 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Brown and furry | 0:40 | Read by Maggie Travers |
A toadstool comes up in a night | 0:24 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
A pocket handkerchief to hem | 0:42 | Read by Maggie Travers |
If a pig wore a wig | 0:28 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Seldom "can't" | 0:24 | Read by Maggie Travers |
One and one are two | 1:20 | Read by Maggie Travers |
How many seconds in a minute? | 1:04 | Read by Maggie Travers |
What will you give me for my pound? | 0:34 | Read by Maggie Travers |
January cold desolate | 0:55 | Read by Maggie Travers |
What is pink? a rose is pink | 0:50 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Mother shake the cherry tree | 0:37 | Read by Maggie Travers |
A pin has a head, but has no hair | 0:55 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Hopping frog, hop here and be seen | 0:43 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are | 0:29 | Read by Maggie Travers |
The city mouse lives in a house | 0:39 | Read by Maggie Travers |
What does the donkey bray about? | 0:48 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Three plum buns | 0:33 | Read by Maggie Travers |
A motherless soft lambkin | 0:37 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Dancing on the hill-tops | 0:44 | Read by Maggie Travers |
When fishes set umbrellas up | 0:24 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
The peacock has a score of eyes | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Pussy has a whiskered face | 0:25 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
The dog lies in his kennel | 0:38 | Read by Maggie Travers |
If hope grew on a bush | 0:30 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
I planted a hand | 0:33 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Under the ivy bush | 0:28 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
I am a King | 0:50 | Read by Maggie Travers |
There is one that has a head without an eye | 0:30 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
If a mouse could fly | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Sing me a song | 0:37 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
The lily has an air | 0:33 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Margaret has a milking-pail | 0:32 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
In the meadow--what in the meadow? | 0:42 | Read by Maggie Travers |
A frisky lamb | 0:29 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Mix a pancake | 0:30 | Read by Maggie Travers |
The wind has such a rainy sound | 0:35 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Three little children | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Fly away, fly away over the sea | 0:29 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Minnie bakes oaten cakes | 0:36 | Read by Maggie Travers |
A white hen sitting | 0:34 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Currants on a bush | 0:26 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Playing at bob cherry | 0:39 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
I have but one rose in the world | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Rosy maiden Winifred | 0:40 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Blind from my birth | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
When the cows come home the milk is coming | 0:34 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
Roses blushing red and white | 0:43 | Read by Maggie Travers |
"Ding a ding" | 0:28 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
A ring upon her finger | 0:39 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Ferry me across the water | 0:37 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
When a mounting skylark sings | 0:36 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Who has seen the wind? | 0:33 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
The horses of the sea | 0:33 | Read by Maggie Travers |
O sailor, come ashore | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |
A diamond or a coal? | 0:37 | Read by Maggie Travers |
An emerald is as green as grass | 0:38 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Boats sail on the rivers | 0:43 | Read by Maggie Travers |
The lily has a smooth stalk | 0:44 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Hurt no living thing | 0:36 | Read by Maggie Travers |
I caught a little ladybird | 0:46 | Read by Maggie Travers |
All the bells were ringing | 0:34 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Wee wee husband | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |
I have a little husband | 0:33 | Read by Maggie Travers |
The dear old woman in the lane | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Swift and sure the swallow | 0:28 | Read by Maggie Travers |
I dreamt I caught a little owl | 0:37 | Read by Maggie Travers |
What does the bee do? | 0:34 | Read by Maggie Travers |
I have a Poll parrot | 0:34 | Read by Maggie Travers |
A house of cards | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |
The rose with such a bonny blush | 0:28 | Read by Maggie Travers |
The rose that blushes rosy red | 0:28 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Oh, fair to see | 0:39 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Clever little Willie wee | 0:35 | Read by Maggie Travers |
The peach tree on the southern wall | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
A rose has thorns as well as honey | 1:04 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Is the moon tired? she looks so pale | 0:37 | Read by Maggie Travers |
If stars dropped out of heaven | 0:36 | Read by Maggie Travers |
"Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow" | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
If the sun could tell us half | 0:31 | Read by Maggie Travers |
If the moon came from heaven | 0:35 | Read by Maggie Travers |
O Lady moon, your horns point toward the east | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |
What do the stars do? | 0:35 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Motherless baby and babyless mother | 0:24 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Crimson curtains round my mother's bed | 0:28 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Baby lies so fast alseep | 0:38 | Read by Maggie Travers |
I know a baby, such a baby | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Lullaby, oh, lullaby! | 0:42 | Read by Maggie Travers |
Lie a-bed | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |