Best Nursery Rhyme Poems
Below are the all-time best Nursery Rhyme poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of nursery rhyme poems written by PoetrySoup members
NURSERY RHYME LAND
Hickory Dickory Dock, the mouse,
Ran up the clock,
But the crooked little man
In his crooked little house,
Who caught this crooked mouse
After Humpty Dumpty's fall,
Could not prevent...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
Three Pea Pods Nursery Rhyme
Three pea pods on the vine
Odd wee bee walks entwine
Twitch, squish it is bewitched
Which three peas snap a wish
Fly lights on the pod
Sniffle the...
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bird, insect, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
The mustard seedThe mustard seed
a wild mustard seed took flight
carried aloft in gathering light
over thistle'd sage and poppies
in countless colorful copies
as brash...
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nursery rhyme, children, earth, flower, nursery
Form:
Couplet
A Bedtime StoryOnce, a long ways away, and a long time ago
Lived a wee little man with his silly pet crow;
And once every day, as the sun...
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nursery rhyme, bird, children, nonsense, nursery
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Couplet
JACK AND JILL RE WRITTENJack and Jill went up the hill
With thoughts of making love
Jack hadn’t got a condom
So cut a finger off Jill’s glove
The glove was far...
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humorous, nursery rhyme,
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Rhyme
THE WINDOW CLEANER
Window cleaning is my trade and I want to tell my story
Like the time I saw the Vicars wife in the bath in all her...
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nursery rhyme, funeral, funny, humor, nursery
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Rhyme
All Mothers Must Sing - A Song for the BulldogIt was not long ago
By the reck'ning of things
You were yet a wee one
Yet under our wing-
But now you have grown up
Like snow follows Spring...
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, baby, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Lyric
A Rattling RhymeRide of the Scarecrow Clan
(To: Mittens)
She was born in the corn on a cold misty morn,
the most beautiful cat on the farm.
(I must keep...
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nursery rhyme, beautiful, cat, jealousy, magic,
Form:
Rhyme
Fruits ColoursAn apple is Red,
I like eating bread,
Banana is yellow,
I am jolly fellow,
Pear is green,
I am neat and clean,
Coconut is brown,
I am little clown,
All fruits are...
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nursery rhyme, color, fruit, kid, kindergarten,
Form:
Rhyme
21ST CENTURY RE-WRITE OF HUMPTY DUMPTYHumpty Dumpty fell off the top of the wall
He got on the phone and gave his lawyer a call
With help from the lawyer and litigation...
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nursery rhyme, change, humorous, irony, nursery
Form:
Rhyme
Twinkle twinkle little star
It's up there
The star that shines for me
Named on the day I was born
My guiding light, shines free
When I was a baby
My mam sang to...
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nursery rhyme, , Lullaby,
Form:
Rhyme
Visiting Dr SeussA furry little caterpillar
Crawled onto my knee
He turned into a butterfly
And landed in a tree
Beside him was a humming bird
Sucking pollen from a rose
When...
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Categories:
granddaughter, nursery rhyme, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
Far Away, Far AwayFar Away, Far Away
Children when you dream at night you may see an awesome sight!
Magic fairies in the dew near trilliums of snow white hue.
You...
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nursery rhyme, childhood, fairy, fantasy, imagery,
Form:
Rhyme
SING A SONG OF SICKNESS - ESPECIALLY FOR SAN WOOSing a song of sickness after a barrel full of rye
Two men drank the whiskey and soon they were pie eyed
They woke up in a...
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drink, humorous, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
OLD KING TROLL FOR ALEXIS YOld King Troll
Had a very long pole
And a very long pole had he
He called for his wife (she’s his trouble and strife)
And he called...
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Categories:
betrayal, nursery rhyme,
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Rhyme
The Clown's SongBring me a child to eat
I'm too weak to stand on my feet
All I need is meat
So bring me a child to eat....
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nursery rhyme, child, food, funny, horror,
Form:
Quatrain
MonkeysYou shouldn't poke at monkeys
unless you're a dummkopf
Who gets precisely what's deserved --
your fingers bitten off....
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nursery rhyme, animal, children, humorous, nature,
Form:
Quatrain
Polly Wolly's DoodleI chanced upon Polly Wolly
Walking one day after school
Clearly without her doodle
Something she thought she'd never lose
She told me she had sat it down
As...
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children, fun, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
Hold the PeasBaby doesn't like the 'peases'.
She spits them out, as she pleases.
I still have that childish vice
But spitting peas isn't nice.
Avoiding them is hard to do.
They're...
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Categories:
giggle, humorous, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
In the BushesIn the bushes lurked a man
Keeping handy
Bits of candy
Luring children in the bushes
Where he hit them,
Scratched them, bit them.
If a man hides in the...
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nursery rhyme, candy, child abuse, children,
Form:
Rhyme
Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Mary had a little lambMary was a shepherdess,
Reputation white as snow,
Until one day she went away,
But where did Mary go?
When she returned, with baby lamb,
It caused a lot of...
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Categories:
humor, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Light Verse
Refurbished Nursery Rhymes: Old Mother Hubbard, a cautionary taleWhen Old Mother Hubbard
Examined her cupboard
And found not a scrap there to munch on...
Not one morsel that clung
To an ort or a crumb…
She felt foolish...
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humor, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Light Verse
The Twelfth Of NeverOn the thirteenth month on day thirty-three
Four and twenty blackbirds sang in a tree
In the darkest hour of mid-afternoon
The calf of that...
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humor, nursery rhyme,
Form:
Rhyme
Slack for SaleOne cent, two cents,
Nickel and dime
Two bits, four bits,
A dollar this time.
Ship me a grasshopper
Do me a crime
Fly like a whippoorwill
O'er Anaheim....
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Categories:
nursery rhyme, bird, flying, fun, money,
Form:
Rhyme
Categories:
nursery rhyme, riddle,
Form:
Rhyme