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.

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.