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American

Mary Mapes Dodge

1831–1905

Mary Mapes Dodge (1831–1905) was an American author and editor, born in New York City. She made her name with the children's novel Hans Brinker; or, The Silver Skates (1865), a story of life in Holland, and wrote verse and prose for young readers throughout her career.

From 1873 until her death she edited St. Nicholas, the illustrated monthly for children, which she built into one of the leading American magazines of its kind. Rhymes and Jingles (1875) gathers the nursery verses, fables and songs she had written for it and for other periodicals.

Poems (207)

  1. Elfin Jack, the Giant-Killer
  2. The Mayor of Scuttleton
  3. Fire in the Window
  4. Cousin Jeremy
  5. Thinking Aloud
  6. "Bye, Baby, Night is Come"
  7. Snow
  8. Oh, Where Are All the Good Little Girls?
  9. Christmas Bells
  10. My Laddie
  11. March
  12. Little Green Hummer
  13. Gluck! Gluck!
  14. A Lad of Nansook, a Balsam-Pod Took
  15. I'd Search the World Over, for One Four-Leaved Clover
  16. Find Me a Stem of the Tiger Lily
  17. Good Mistress Sundial
  18. Some One in the Garden
  19. Wire-Locks, Curly-Pate, Tangle, and Floss
  20. Old Bum of Bumbleby
  21. Under the Willow, Out of the Rain
  22. Little Polly Always Clever
  23. Lift Up Your Face, Little Daisy!
  24. I Know Where There's a Beautiful Shoe
  25. Hobbledy Hops
  26. Bright Little Buttercup
  27. The Ants
  28. Burs
  29. Hollyhock, Hollyhock, Bend for Me!
  30. The Evening Primrose
  31. Ho, Dandelion! My Lightsome Fellow!
  32. Song of Summer
  33. Little Beginnings
  34. Mooney and Blacky
  35. The Moon Came Late to a Lonesome Bog
  36. Johnny the Stout
  37. A Farmer in Bungleton Had a Colt
  38. The Drinking-Pan
  39. The Shrewd Lad of Cooloo
  40. There Was a Fine Youth of Pike's Peak
  41. Stocking Song on Christmas Eve
  42. In Trust
  43. A Song of St. Nicholas
  44. Flowers
  45. The Little Mother
  46. Among the Animals
  47. Old Doctor Paff
  48. The Little Girl Who Wouldn't Eat Crusts
  49. Poor Little Toddlekins
  50. Song of the Ducks
  51. That's What We'd Do
  52. Little Pipkin
  53. An April Maiden
  54. There's a Fragrance in the Blossom
  55. Wake Up, Birdie!
  56. The Difference (Three Old Ladies)
  57. Billy Boy
  58. Shepherd John
  59. My Week
  60. Baby in Dreamland
  61. Thanksgiving
  62. Birdie's Birthday
  63. The Star Family
  64. As I Was Going
  65. Two Little Froggies
  66. One and One
  67. Birdies with Broken Wings
  68. Willie's Lodger
  69. Four Little Piggies Bound for a Frolic
  70. Spinning Your Top
  71. Good Morning!
  72. Lady Bird and Daddy Longlegs
  73. Wouldn't and Would
  74. Nell and Her Bird
  75. There Was an Old Weather-Vane
  76. Dumpy Dicky
  77. Have You Heard the News, Good Neighbor?
  78. The New Slate
  79. Little Pot Soon Hot
  80. Nell's Notions
  81. Never a Night So Dark and Drear
  82. Snow, Snow, Everywhere
  83. Some One We Cannot Hear
  84. A Stranger in the Pew
  85. The Queen O' May
  86. Pussy's Class
  87. Twistan, Turnem, Let Me See
  88. Wandering Joe
  89. Whether Fair, Whether Foul
  90. The Rats
  91. In the Wood
  92. Comb Music
  93. In the Basket
  94. Coming
  95. The Dainty Miss Rose
  96. Poor Little Mousie
  97. Waiting for Father
  98. What Shall I Buy?
  99. Rut-a-Tut-Tuts
  100. Halloo, Old Scuttle, Where's Your Coal?
  101. Oh No!
  102. The Sandman
  103. Trouble in the Greenhouse
  104. Ten Kinds
  105. Have You Apples, Good Grocer?
  106. The Old Woman of Wigg
  107. The Brave Knight of Lorraine
  108. The Old Doctor of Brille
  109. Fairy Tales
  110. Old Can an' Must
  111. Motherless
  112. Old Simon
  113. The Little Mote
  114. When I Was Little
  115. What Makes Baby Brave and Bright?
  116. The Alphabet
  117. Early to Bed and Early to Rise
  118. The Cook's Little Boy
  119. Harry
  120. Three Ways
  121. Tom of Clapham
  122. What They Say
  123. One Step, Two Step
  124. Melons
  125. How Many Things in My Pocket?
  126. The Gallant Outriders
  127. Busy Bee! Busy Bee!
  128. Dobbin's Friend
  129. The Way to Do It
  130. Willy and His Pipe
  131. I Had a Little Scotchman
  132. Trottery, Trottery
  133. Lazy Lou
  134. Up in the Morning Early
  135. Pins in the Carpet, Tacks in the Floor
  136. If Pussy Were Made of Leather
  137. Be Careful
  138. Farm Lessons
  139. Out of the Ground
  140. Poor Crow!
  141. The Wooden Horse
  142. Tinker, Come Bring Your Solder
  143. There Was a Rare Boy
  144. Taking Time to Grow
  145. The Naughty Boy
  146. Little Miss Limberkin
  147. The Frog Who Wouldn't a Wooing Go
  148. The Stubborn Boot
  149. The Little Dutchman
  150. A Birthday
  151. The Pig and the Lark
  152. The Well-Meaning Frog
  153. The Frost King
  154. After the Winter
  155. Little Whimpy
  156. Night and Day
  157. At the Window
  158. Out of the Shell
  159. Bees in the Manger
  160. Baby Nell
  161. Lemons for Molly
  162. Jamie's Troubles
  163. Jean and Kitty
  164. Doggie's Tricks
  165. A Song for Bertie
  166. A Common Mistake
  167. Little Minnie Stowe
  168. Letting the Old Cat Die
  169. What Shall We Take to Boston?
  170. Washing Day
  171. Trotty Malone
  172. Don't Trust Chatter
  173. Red and White
  174. The Third of July
  175. When I Am Big
  176. Wind for the Tree Top
  177. Here Are Plenty of Shells
  178. Little Bell Dreer and the Dish-Cover
  179. Master Tremble's Adventure
  180. Hark! My Children
  181. The Kitten Picture
  182. Some Are Starving
  183. The Terrible Ball
  184. A Birthday Rhyme
  185. The Girl Across the Way
  186. Willie
  187. If Cows Wore Satin Slippers
  188. Bumble Bramble
  189. Nobody Near Him, All in the Dark
  190. Oh No, 'Tisn't So
  191. The Sun and the Stars
  192. Learning to Pray
  193. Benny's Buttons
  194. What Was the Moon A-Spying?
  195. A Nursery Rhyme for Big Folks
  196. Fire Flies
  197. Fulfillment
  198. Resolution
  199. How the New Year Came
  200. The Wind and the Moon
  201. Children's Hymn
  202. The Two Mysteries
  203. Once Before
  204. The Stars
  205. Emerson
  206. Shadow-Evidence
  207. Snowflakes

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