Sing-Song
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These verses — deceptively simple, light, often like a nursery rhyme in character — consider such topics as childhood activities, children's cruelty and gentleness, roses and wild flowers, nesting birds and farm animals, cold winter and blossoming spring. Many pose riddles and conundrums ("A hill has no leg, but has a foot;/A wine-glass a stem, but not a root").
This is the only edition in print to reproduce the poems with the illustrations which originally accompanied them. Engravings by Arthur Hughes, one of the best-known illustrators of the Victorian era, catch the mood of each verse.
Sing-Song is a fitting name for this collection: many of the verses capture the cadence of the ballad. Children will enjoy their music. Parents will find the simple content and lyrical language of the verses ideal for reading aloud.
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Sing-Song - Christina G. Rossetti
BOOKS
SING-SONG.
Angels at the foot,
And Angels at the head,
And like a curly little lamb
My pretty babe in bed.
Love me,—I love you,
Love me, my baby;
Sing it high, sing it low,
Sing it as may be.
Mother’s arms under you,
Her eyes above you
Sing it high, sing it low,
Love me,—I love you.
My baby has a father and a mother,
Rich little baby!
Fatherless, motherless, I know another
Forlorn as may be:
Poor little baby!
Our little baby fell asleep,
And may not wake again
For days and days, and weeks and weeks;
But then he ’ll wake again,
And come with his own pretty look,
And kiss Mamma again.
Kookoorookoo ! kookoorookoo !
Crows the cock before the morn;
Kikirikee ! kikirikee !
Roses in the east are born.
Kookoorookoo ! kookoorookoo !
Early birds begin their singing;
Kikirikee ! kikirikee !
The day, the day, the day is springing.
Baby cry—
Oh fie !—
At the physic in the cup:
Gulp it