Rhymes and jingles by Mary Mapes Dodge

Dodge, Mary Mapes (1830-1905)

[dedication]

[Fire in the window! flashes in the pane!]

Bye Baby Night is Come

[Oh, no!]

Let's Play

Little Jo's Compliment

The Pensive Cricket.

[When I am big, I mean to buy]

ELFIN JACK the Giant Killer

TROUBLED

[A black-nosed kitten will slumber all the day]

[Don't trust Chatter, who whispers low]

[Here's plenty of shells and clay and water]

Little Charley

Making it Skip

Hark my Children

[Wind for the tree-top, sun for the spear]

FARM LESSONS

STOCKING SONG ON CHRISTMAS EVE

BELLE AND THE SILVER DISH-COVER

Snow, Snow, Everywhere!

[Gluck! gluck! From under a log]

[Bright little buttercup, now you will show]

[Oh, I'd search the world over]

[Wire-locks, Curly-pate, Tangle, and Floss]

[Hollyhock, hollyhock, bend for me]

Bumble of Bumbleby

[Sunlight or starlight]

[A lad of Nansook]

[Blow loud for the blossoms that live in the trees]

[Little Polly, always clever]

Burs

The Ants

[The Moon came late to a lonesome bog]

[Ho, Dandelion! my lightsome fellow!]

Hobbledy Hops

Good Mistress Sundial

[Something in the garden murmurs all the day]

[section]

A Song of St. Nicholas

The Little Mother

A Riddle

Midsummer Frolics

A Suggestion for A Happy New Year

JEAN AND KITTY

[Lemons for Molly]

Out of the Shell

[I know where there's a beautiful shoe]

THE WELL-MEANING FROG

The Little Dutchman

HOW MANY THINGS IN MY POCKET?

Little Pot Soon Hot

[“Have you heard the news, good neighbor?”]

Nell and her Bird

[Some one we cannot hear]

THE SUN AND THE STARS

[If cows wore satin slippers]

[Bumble, bramble, which came first, sir]

[There was a brave knight of Lorraine]

[A farmer in Bungleton had a colt]

[There was a shrewd lad of Cooloo]

Among the Animals

[Poor little Toddlekins]

[Pins in the carpet, tacks in the floor]

[Trottery, trottery, out of breath!]

PUSSY'S CLASS

[Dumphy Dicky said, “I can't;”]

[Some are starving, some are filling]

[There's a fragrance in the blossom]

Johnny the Stout

Pussy & Doggie

[Old Doctor Paff, he used to laugh]

WILLIE'S LODGER

Billy Boy

Little Miss Limberkin

The Way to do it

HALLOO, OLD SCUTTLE!

[When I was little]

[I'd like to be a splendid man]

NOT ONLY IN THE CHRISTMAS-TIDE

Christmas

Side by Side

[Birdies with broken wings]

The Three Old Ladies

THE MAYOR OF SCUTTLETON

Nell's Notion

GOOD-NIGHT!

[What makes baby brave and bright?]

The Frog who wouldn't A-Wooing go

The Pig and the Lark

[I gave my puss a mac-a-roon]

[Oh, where are all the good little girls]

EXTRAVAGANCE

Harry

[There was an old weather-vane high on a shed]

[Twistan Turnem, let me see]

What They Say

JINGLES

[There was a rare boy who fell ill]

[There was an old doctor of Brille]

[I had a little Scotchman]

THE ROCKING-HORSE

UP IN A BALLOON

At the Window

THE COOK'S LITTLE BOY

BENNY'S BUTTONS

The Frost King

[“Early to bed and early to rise:”]

[Tom of Clapham used to say]

THE WOODEN HORSE

COMB MUSIC

[When the sun is sinking low in the skies]

FOUR LITTLE BIRDS

[Baby Nell had ten little toes]

Little Minnie Stowe

How the New Year came

CHRISTMAS BELLS

Master Tremble

[Nobody near him, all in the dark]

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Hark my Children

Hark! hark! O my children, hark!
When the sky has lost its blue
What do the stars sing in the dark?
“We must sparkle, sparkle, through.”

What do leaves say in the storm,
Tossed in whispering heaps, together?
“We can keep the violets warm
'Till they wake in fairer weather.”

What do happy songsters say,
Flitting through the gloomy wood?
“We must sing the gloom away—
Sun or shadow, God is good.”

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Hark my Children