Sing-Song: a nursery rhyme book
Christina Rossetti
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
One hundred and twenty six beautifully written poems about babies and childhood that capture the marvelous wonders of that age. - Summary by Maggie Travers (1 hr 15 min)
Chapters
| Angels at the foot | 0:27 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Love me, --I love you | 0:34 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| My baby has a father and a mother | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Our little baby fell asleep | 0:30 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| "Kookoorookoo! kookoorookoo!" | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Baby cry | 0:24 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Eight o'clock | 0:29 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Bread and milk for breakfast | 0:25 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| There's snow on the fields | 0:35 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush | 0:31 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| I dug and dug amongst the snow | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| A city plum is not a plum | 0:30 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Your brother has a falcon | 0:36 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Hear what the mournful linnets say | 0:35 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| A baby's cradle with no baby in it | 0:33 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Hop-o'-my-thumb and little Jack Horner | 0:28 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth | 0:45 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| O wind, why do you never rest | 0:26 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Crying, my little one, footsore and weary? | 0:50 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Growing in the vale | 0:32 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| A linnet in a gilded cage | 0:37 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Wrens and robins in the hedge | 0:24 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| My baby has a mottled fist | 0:31 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Why did baby die | 0:27 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| If all were rain and never sun | 0:30 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| O wind, where have you been | 0:28 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Brownie, Brownie, let down your milk | 0:36 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| On the grassy banks | 0:27 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Rushes in a watery place | 0:34 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Minnie and Mattie | 1:05 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Heartsease in my garden bed | 0:39 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| If I were a Queen | 0:27 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow | 0:38 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Stroke a flint, and there is nothing to admire | 0:25 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| There is but one May in the year | 0:43 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| The summer nights are short | 0:32 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| The days are clear | 0:35 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Twist me a crown of wind-flowers | 0:38 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Brown and furry | 0:40 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| A toadstool comes up in a night | 0:24 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| A pocket handkerchief to hem | 0:42 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| If a pig wore a wig | 0:28 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Seldom "can't" | 0:24 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| One and one are two | 1:20 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| How many seconds in a minute? | 1:04 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| What will you give me for my pound? | 0:34 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| January cold desolate | 0:55 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| What is pink? a rose is pink | 0:50 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Mother shake the cherry tree | 0:37 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| A pin has a head, but has no hair | 0:55 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Hopping frog, hop here and be seen | 0:43 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Where innocent bright-eyed daisies are | 0:29 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| The city mouse lives in a house | 0:39 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| What does the donkey bray about? | 0:48 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Three plum buns | 0:33 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| A motherless soft lambkin | 0:37 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Dancing on the hill-tops | 0:44 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| When fishes set umbrellas up | 0:24 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| The peacock has a score of eyes | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Pussy has a whiskered face | 0:25 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| The dog lies in his kennel | 0:38 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| If hope grew on a bush | 0:30 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| I planted a hand | 0:33 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Under the ivy bush | 0:28 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| I am a King | 0:50 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| There is one that has a head without an eye | 0:30 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| If a mouse could fly | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Sing me a song | 0:37 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| The lily has an air | 0:33 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Margaret has a milking-pail | 0:32 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| In the meadow--what in the meadow? | 0:42 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| A frisky lamb | 0:29 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Mix a pancake | 0:30 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| The wind has such a rainy sound | 0:35 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Three little children | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Fly away, fly away over the sea | 0:29 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Minnie bakes oaten cakes | 0:36 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| A white hen sitting | 0:34 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Currants on a bush | 0:26 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Playing at bob cherry | 0:39 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| I have but one rose in the world | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Rosy maiden Winifred | 0:40 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Blind from my birth | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| When the cows come home the milk is coming | 0:34 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| Roses blushing red and white | 0:43 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| "Ding a ding" | 0:28 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| A ring upon her finger | 0:39 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Ferry me across the water | 0:37 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| When a mounting skylark sings | 0:36 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Who has seen the wind? | 0:33 | Read by Elizabeth Travers |
| The horses of the sea | 0:33 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| O sailor, come ashore | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| A diamond or a coal? | 0:37 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| An emerald is as green as grass | 0:38 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Boats sail on the rivers | 0:43 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| The lily has a smooth stalk | 0:44 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Hurt no living thing | 0:36 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| I caught a little ladybird | 0:46 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| All the bells were ringing | 0:34 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Wee wee husband | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| I have a little husband | 0:33 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| The dear old woman in the lane | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Swift and sure the swallow | 0:28 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| I dreamt I caught a little owl | 0:37 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| What does the bee do? | 0:34 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| I have a Poll parrot | 0:34 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| A house of cards | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| The rose with such a bonny blush | 0:28 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| The rose that blushes rosy red | 0:28 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Oh, fair to see | 0:39 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Clever little Willie wee | 0:35 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| The peach tree on the southern wall | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| A rose has thorns as well as honey | 1:04 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Is the moon tired? she looks so pale | 0:37 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| If stars dropped out of heaven | 0:36 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| "Goodbye in fear, goodbye in sorrow" | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| If the sun could tell us half | 0:31 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| If the moon came from heaven | 0:35 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| O Lady moon, your horns point toward the east | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| What do the stars do? | 0:35 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Motherless baby and babyless mother | 0:24 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Crimson curtains round my mother's bed | 0:28 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Baby lies so fast alseep | 0:38 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| I know a baby, such a baby | 0:41 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Lullaby, oh, lullaby! | 0:42 | Read by Maggie Travers |
| Lie a-bed | 0:32 | Read by Maggie Travers |