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Mother Goose Short Poems

Famous Short Mother Goose Poems. Short poetry by famous poet Mother Goose. A collection of the all-time best Mother Goose short poems


A Star  Create an image from this poem
by Mother Goose
Higher than a house, higher than a tree.Oh! whatever can that be?



by Mother Goose
A sunshiny showerWon't last half an hour.

by Mother Goose
For want of a nail, the shoe was lost;For want of the shoe, the horse was lost;For want of the horse, the rider was lost;For want of the rider, the battle was lost;For want of the battle, the kingdom was lost,And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.

by Mother Goose
Ride away, ride away,  Johnny shall ride,And he shall have pussy-cat  Tied to one side;And he shall have little dog  Tied to the other,And Johnny shall ride  To see his grandmother.

by Mother Goose
Thirty days hath September,April, June, and November;February has twenty-eight alone,All the rest have thirty-one,Excepting leap-year, that's the timeWhen February's days are twenty-nine.



by Mother Goose
What are little boys made of, made of?What are little boys made of?"Snaps and snails, and puppy-dogs' tails;And that's what little boys are made of."What are little girls made of, made of?What are little girls made of?"Sugar and spice, and all that's nice;And that's what little girls are made of."

Abc  Create an image from this poem
by Mother Goose
  Great A, little a,  Bouncing B!The cat's in the cupboard,  And can't see me.

by Mother Goose
The greedy man is he who sits    And bites bits out of plates,Or else takes up an almanac    And gobbles all the dates. 

by Mother Goose
    Lives in winter,    Dies in summer,And grows with its roots upward!

by Mother Goose
Flour of England, fruit of Spain,  Met together in a shower of rain;Put in a bag tied round with a string;  If you'll tell me this riddle,  I'll give you a ring.

by Mother Goose
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. 

by Mother Goose
If all the seas were one sea,What a great sea that would be!And if all the trees were one tree,What a great tree that would be!And if all the axes were one axe,What a great axe that would be!And if all the men were one man,What a great man he would be!And if the great man took the great axe,And cut down the great tree,And let it fall into the great sea,What a splish splash that would be!

by Mother Goose
Jerry Hall, he was so small,A rat could eat him, hat and all.

by Mother Goose
  Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,Upstairs and downstairs, in his nightgown;Rapping at the window, crying through the lock,"Are the children in their beds? Now it's eight o'clock."

by Mother Goose
As the days grow longerThe storms grow stronger.

by Mother Goose
The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown,The Lion beat the Unicorn all around the town.Some gave them white bread, and some gave them brown,Some gave them plum-cake, and sent them out of town.

by Mother Goose
Little Nanny EtticoatIn a white petticoat,And a red nose;The longer she standsThe shorter she grows. 

by Mother Goose
Black within and red without;Four corners round about.

by Mother Goose
    Bat, bat,    Come under my hat,And I'll give you a slice of bacon;    And when I bake    I'll give you a cakeIf I am not mistaken.

by Mother Goose
There came an old woman from FranceWho taught grown-up children to dance;    But they were so stiff,    She sent them home in a sniff,This sprightly old woman from France. 

by Mother Goose
One misty moisty morning,    When cloudy was the weather,I chanced to meet an old man,    Clothed all in leather.He began to compliment    And I began to grin.How do you do? And how do you do?    And how do you do again? 

A Pig  Create an image from this poem
by Mother Goose
  As I went to Bonner,    I met a pig    Without a wigUpon my word and honor.

by Mother Goose
I saw a ship a-sailing,A-sailing on the sea;And, oh! it was all ladenWith pretty things for thee!There were comfits in the cabin,And apples in the hold;The sails were made of silk,And the masts were made of gold.The four-and-twenty sailorsThat stood between the decks,Were four-and-twenty white miceWith chains about their necks.The captain was a duck,With a packet on his back;And when the ship began to move,The captain said, "Quack! Quack!"

by Mother Goose
      Hey, diddle, diddle!    The cat and the fiddle,The cow jumped over the moon;    The little dog laughed    To see such sport,And the dish ran away with the spoon.

by Mother Goose
Hickery, dickery, 6 and 7,Alabone, Crackabone, 10 and 11,Spin, spun, muskidun,Twiddle 'em, twaddle 'em, 21.


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