This is the last of the Lenski nursery rhyme pictures, and there were a couple of rhymes here I didn’t know.
This one is very sweet….
Bossy-Cow, Bossy-Cow
Bossy-cow, bossy.cow, where do you lie?
In the green meadow under the sky.
Billy-horse, billy-horse, where do you lie?
Out in the stable with nobody nigh.
Birdies bright, birdies sweet, where do you lie?
Up in the tree-tops, –oh, ever so high!
Baby dear, baby love, where do you lie?
In my warm crib, with Mama close by.
And this one is very strange….
There Was a Man In Our Town
There was a man in our town,
And he was wondrous wise;
He jumped into a bramble bush,
And scratched out both his eyes;
And when he saw his eyes were out,
With all high might and main,
He jumped into another bush,
And scratched them in again.
You are right, the Bossy-cow is very charming, but scratching eyes out should not be a topic of poetry, even if he did scratch them back in!
I love the spinning mice!
How wonderful! 🙂
That last one is a little disturbing!
oooh… so sad that it’s the last one. I very much enjoyed these drawings and cute poems (weird ones too). I would be all ears, if someone makes up lovely stories from these pictures. Thanks a lot, Martha for all the smiles 🙂
Have a great weekend!
Love the first one but boy that second one is strange, lol! Lovely pics – thanks Martha!
My favorite one in this group has to be Jack and Jill.
Sweet little dress on Jill.
The illustrations are wonderful! Bossy-Cow is really sweet and the bramble bush man is indeed rather disturbing. Reminds me of a version of See-saw Majorie Daw which I had to stop reading rather abruptly because it got kind of ugly in today’s terminology.