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Rhymes and jingles by Mary Mapes Dodge

Dodge, Mary Mapes (1830-1905)

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Going to London

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

Bye Baby Night is Come

Little Jo's Compliment

The Pensive Cricket.

[When I am big, I mean to buy]

ELFIN JACK the Giant Killer

[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]

Hark my Children

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

STOCKING SONG ON CHRISTMAS EVE

BELLE AND THE SILVER DISH-COVER

Snow, Snow, Everywhere!

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Little Green Hummer

[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]

[The Moon came late to a lonesome bog]

[Ho, Dandelion! my lightsome fellow!]

Good Mistress Sundial

[Something in the garden murmurs all the day]

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A Song of St. Nicholas

The Little Mother

Midsummer Frolics

A Suggestion for A Happy New Year

[Lemons for Molly]

Out of the Shell

[I know where there's a beautiful shoe]

THE TERRIBLE BALL

Wouldn't and Would

Baby in Dreamland

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 STUBBORN BOOT

The Queen o' May

Children's Hymn

THE SUN AND THE STARS

TAKING TIME TO GROW

DOGGIE'S TRICKS

THE THIRD OF JULY

The Dainty Miss Rose

[If cows wore satin slippers]

[Bumble, bramble, which came first, sir]

[Bees in the manger]

LITTLE BEGINNINGS

[There was a brave knight of Lorraine]

THE NAUGHTY BOY

The Little Mote

[A farmer in Bungleton had a colt]

[There was a shrewd lad of Cooloo]

Among the Animals

[Poor little Toddlekins]

What shall I buy

WAITING FOR FATHER

Dobbin's Friend

[Spinning your top]

[One step—two step]

Up in the Morning

Two Little Froggies

[Pins in the carpet, tacks in the floor]

[Trottery, trottery, out of breath!]

[Dumphy Dicky said, “I can't;”]

[Some are starving, some are filling]

[There's a fragrance in the blossom]

Johnny the Stout

[Old Doctor Paff, he used to laugh]

WILLIE'S LODGER

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

[Birdies with broken wings]

The Three Old Ladies

THE MAYOR OF SCUTTLETON

[What makes baby brave and bright?]

Willy and his Pipe

The Knowing Raccoon

The Star Family

The Frog who wouldn't A-Wooing go

The Pig and the Lark

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

A COMMON MISTAKE

Poor Little Mousie

What shall we Take

[Oh, where are all the good little girls]

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

[Twistan Turnem, let me see]

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[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

THE COOK'S LITTLE BOY

BENNY'S BUTTONS

[“Early to bed and early to rise:”]

[Tom of Clapham used to say]

THE WOODEN HORSE

[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

[Nobody near him, all in the dark]

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Bumble of Bumbleby

Bumble of Bumbleby bumped his nose,
Trying to light on a damask rose;
He bumped his nose, but he didn't care
As he pitched about in the dizzy air.
Whenever he tried to his love to fly,
He would scurry ahead and pass her by;
So he tumbled at last on a larkspur near,
And buzzed his business into her ear.