Living
Little Polly Flinders
From The Little Mother Goose, illus. Jessie Willcox Smith (1918)
Living
Little Polly Flinders
Sat among the cinders,
Warming her pretty little toes;
Her mother came and caught her,
And whipped her little daughter
For spoiling her nice new clothes.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “Little Polly Flinders.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/656/.
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Anonymous (English nursery rhymes). “Little Polly Flinders.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/anonymous-english-nursery-rhymes/656/.
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