Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
English poem and nursery rhyme by Jane Taylor, first published in 1806 under the title “The Star”.
Jack Sprat
English nursery rhyme first recorded in the form we know it today in 1670.
Baa, Baa, Black Sheep
English nursery rhyme the earliest known version of which appears in 1784, perhaps referring to a tax on wool introduced in 1275.
Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
English nursery rhyme that may be about Queen Mary I.
Wee Willie Winkie
Nursery rhyme about the best-known of the British sleep spirits, first published in 1841.
Hickory Dickory Dock
English nursery rhyme the earliest known version of which appears in 1784, probably a counting rhyme.
Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross
English nursery rhyme, the earliest known version of which appears in 1784.
Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Tweedledum and Tweedledee are nursery rhyme characters most closely associated in the popular imagination with the characters of the same name in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).
Humpty Dumpty
One of the best-known English nursery rhymes, about an egg, and almost certainly intended as a riddle.
There was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
English nursery rhyme about a woman with many children.