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Cover of Rhymes for the Nursery

Rhymes for the Nursery

Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor

Length
1 h 24 min
Chapters
9
Language
English
Genre
Poetry
First published
1806

This early 19th-century children's poetry collection by Jane and Ann Taylor is little-known today, but contains the original version of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, known then as just The Star.

Also included are poems about why you shouldn't kill kittens, birds and flies, a poem about how you can be seriously scarred if you play with fire, and a poem about a homeless man who cries himself to sleep because of how naughty he was a child. (Jordan)

Chapters

From LibriVox, read by volunteers and in the public domain. LibriVox page (opens librivox.org), the text (opens books.google.co.uk), all files on the Internet Archive (opens archive.org).