Quotes About Rhymes

This is the farmer sowing the corn,That kept the cock that crowed in the morn,That waked the priest all shaven and shorn,That married the man all tattered and torn,That kissed the maiden all forlorn,That milked the cow with the crumpled horn,That tossed the dogThat worried the catThat killed the ratThat ate the maltThat lay in the house that Jack built.

There were three jolly huntsmen,As I have heard them say,And they would go a-huntingUpon St. David's Day.

It's like a lion at the door;And when the door begins to crack,It's like a stick across your back;And when your back begins to smart,It's like a penknife in your heart;And when your heart begins to bleed,You're dead, and dead, and dead, indeed.

Hickory dickory dock,The mouse ran up the clock,The clock struck one,The mouse ran down;Hickory dickory dock.

Come, let's to bed,Says Sleepyhead;Tarry awhile, says Slow;Put on the pot,Says Greedy-gut,We'll sup before we go.

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner,Eating a Christmas pie.He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum,And said, "What a good boy am I!"

"My face is my fortune, sir," she said.

Fe fi fo fum!I smell the blood of an Englishman;Be he alive or be he dead,I'll grind his bones to make my bread.

Bobby Shaftoe's gone to sea,Silver buckles on his knee;He'll come back and marry me,Pretty Bobby Shaftoe.

Baa, baa, black sheep,Have you any wool?Yes, sir, yes, sir,Three bags full:One for my master,And one for my dame,And one for the little boyWho lives down the lane.

"Who saw him die?""I," said the fly,"With my little eye,I saw him die."

Jack, be nimble,Jack, be quick,Jack, jump over the candlestick.

Tom, Tom, the piper's son,Stole a pig, and away he run;The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,And Tom went howling down the street.

The Queen of HeartsShe made some tarts,All on a summer's day;The Knave of HeartsHe stole the tarts,And took them clean away.

Three blind mice, see how they run!They all ran after the farmer's wife,She cut off their tails with a carving knife,Did you ever see such a sight in your life,As three blind mice?

Cock a doodle doo!My dame has lost her shoe;My master's lost his fiddle stick,And knows not what to do.

High diddle diddle The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such craft And the dish ran away with the spoon.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall,Humpty Dumpty had a great fall;All the king's horsesAnd all the king's menCouldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again.

Doctor Foster went to GloucesterIn a shower of rain;He stepped in a puddle, up to his middle,And never went there again.

Simple Simon met a piemanGoing to the fair:Says Simple Simon to the pieman,"Let me taste your ware."

Bye baby bunting,Daddy's gone a-hunting.Gone to get a rabbit skinTo wrap the baby bunting in.

Peter, Peter Pumpkin-Eater,Had a wife and couldn't keep her.He put her in a pumpkin shell,And there he kept her very well.

There was an old woman tossed in a blanket,Seventeen times as high as the moon;But where she was going no mortal could tell,For under her arm she carried a broom.Old woman, old woman, old woman, said I,Whither, ah whither, ah whither so high?To sweep the cobwebs from the sky,And I'll be with you by and by.

Oranges and lemons,Say the bells of St. Clement's.You owe me five farthings,Say the bells of St. Martin's.When will you pay me?Say the bells of Old Bailey.When I grow rich,Say the bells of Shoreditch.