The nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence tells a playful story about royalty, surprise, and curiosity. The rhyme tells us a story about a funny little word with a king, queen, and some birds hiding ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. # Sing a song of sixpence # A pocket full of rye # 4 and 20 blackbirds all baked in a pie # When the ...

In 1926, Archibald MacLeish (1892–1982) published a poem he called “Ars Poetica” (an updating, he thought, of Horace’s ancient Roman “art of poetry”). Composing a manifesto for the Imagism of the time ...

Sing a Song of Sixpence: A Pocketful of Nursery Rhymes and Tales by Jane Chapman delivers familiar verse and stories from ""Jack and Jill"" to ""The Three Little Pigs."" And although less cheerful ...

THEY say that knowledge of nursery rhymes is dying out, that small children are no longer encouraged to learn them by heart or read them. If this is the case it means a major loss to the English ...

Wee Willie Winkie -- Polly Flinders -- Mary had a little lamb -- See-saw Margery Daw -- Sing a song of sixpence -- Jack Sprat could eat no fat -- There was a little girl -- Simple Simon -- Polly put ...

First noted in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, where Sir Toby Belch, gives a sixpence to a clown, and says, ‘let’s have a song’, there have been other uses as, “here’s a stir, let’s sing for the sixpence ...