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| Foreword | |
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| Lullabies | |
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| Hush, Little Baby | |
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| Golden Slumbers | |
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| Sleep, Little One | |
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| Cradle Song | |
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| Lullaby, Oh, Lullaby | |
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| Lie A-Bed | |
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| Oh Hush Thee, My Dove | |
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| Sleep, Baby, Sleep | |
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| Toora, Loora, Loora | |
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| Sleep, Baby Sleep | |
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| Slumber Time Is Drawing Near | |
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| Sleep My Baby | |
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| Rockaby Baby | |
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| Senora Santa Ana | |
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| Bye-O, Bye-O, Bye-O Baby | |
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| Hush, My Little Bird | |
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| Watching Over Me | |
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| Lully, Lulla | |
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| A Rocking Hymn | |
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| Cradle Hymn | |
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| Brahms's Lullaby | |
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| All Through the Night | |
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| When At Night I Go To Sleep | |
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| Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John | |
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| Angels Watching Over Me | |
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| Swing Low, Sweet Chariot | |
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| Kumbayah | |
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| The Vorage of Sleep | |
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| Wynken, Blynken, and Nod | |
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| My Bed Is a Boat | |
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| The White Seal's Lullaby | |
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| Baby's Bed's a Silver Moon | |
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| The Land of Nod | |
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| Promises | |
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| Lullaby of an Infant Chief | |
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| Rock-a-bye, Baby | |
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| All the Pretty Little Horses | |
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| Cherries Are Ripe | |
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| Baiouski Baiou | |
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| Raisins and Almonds | |
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| Yoruba Lullaby | |
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| O Sweetly Does My Baby Sleep | |
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| Fais Dodo | |
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| Little Baby Sweetly Sleep | |
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| Your Brother Has a Falcon | |
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| Armenian Lullaby | |
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| Summertime | |
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| Poem for a Birthday | |
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| Night Falls | |
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| From Night | |
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| Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star | |
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| Day Is Done | |
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| The Cottager To Her Infant | |
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| Now the Day Is Over | |
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| Autumn Lullaby | |
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| The Evening Is Coming | |
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| Little Red Bird | |
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| Now Sleep Little Baby | |
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| Spells and Charms | |
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| The Fairies Sing Titania To Sleep | |
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| Ariel's Song | |
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| The Sandman | |
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| Monday's Child | |
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| Bed Is Too Small | |
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| Hush-a-Bye My Baby | |
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| Against Dark's Harm | |
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| Stories in Song | |
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| Mary's Lamb | |
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| Minnie and Winnie | |
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| Little Boy Blue | |
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| Oh, Mother, How Pretty the Moon Is Tonight | |
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| I Gave My Love a Cherry | |
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| Lavender's Blue | |
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| Oranges and Lemons | |
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| Shady Grove, My Little Love | |
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| The Cambric Shirt | |
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| The Skye Boat Song | |
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| Oh, My Darling Clementine | |
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| The Big Rock Candy Mountains | |
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| In Mother's Arms | |
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| The Baby's Dance | |
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| Mother and Child | |
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| Crying, My Little One | |
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| Mother's Song | |
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| Mammy, Mammy Told Me-O | |
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| Way Up High In the Cherry Tree | |
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| I've Found My Bonny Babe a Nest | |
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| The Gartan Mother's Lullaby | |
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| Can Ye Sew Cushions? | |
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| Suo-Gan | |
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| Bye You, Bye You | |
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| Hopi Lullaby | |
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| Akan Lullaby | |
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| Lullaby (For a Black Mother) | |
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| Lullaby for a Daughter | |
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| When Daddy Comes Home | |
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| Sweet and Low | |
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| Bye, Baby Bunting | |
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| Hush, My Baby, Don't You Cry | |
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| Hush, Little Baby, Don't Say a Word | |
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| Ally Bally | |
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| Welsh Lullaby | |
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| Dance to Your Daddy | |
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| Song To Be Sung By the Father of Infant Female Children | |
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| Welcome, Stranger | |
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| Baby Song | |
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| Morning Song | |
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| Woman to Child | |
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| To a Ten Months' Child | |
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| At Birth | |
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| Now That I Am Forever With Child | |
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| Poems for Children | |
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| Nonsense | |
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| To Bed | |
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| Hey! Diddle, Diddle | |
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| Sing a Song of Sixpence | |
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| Comical Folk | |
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| The Crooked Song | |
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| The Man in the Wilderness | |
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| Self-Portrait of Edward Lear | |
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| The Table and the Chair | |
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| If a Pig Wore a Wig | |
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| Growing in the Vale | |
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| You Are Old, Father William | |
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| Jabberwocky | |
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| The Mock Turtle's Song | |
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| Craqueodoom | |
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| Eletelephony | |
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| Song of the Mad Prince | |
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| Ode to a Baby | |
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| Silly Stories | |
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| Good King Arthur | |
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| The Queen of Hearts | |
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| Wee Willie Winkie | |
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| Little Bo-Peep | |
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| An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog | |
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| The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and Her Dog | |
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| The Owl and the Pussy-Cat | |
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| A Tragic Story | |
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| Where Did You Come From, Baby Dear? | |
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| Mother Shake the Cherry-Tree | |
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| The Walrus and the Carpenter | |
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| Bed in Summer | |
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| My Shadow | |
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| The Tale of Custard the Dragon | |
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| Fantasies | |
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| I Saw a Ship A-Sailing | |
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| King Pippin's Hall | |
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| If | |
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| Laughing Song | |
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| The Splendour Falls on Castle Walls | |
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| The Sugar-Plum Tree | |
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| Young Night Thought | |
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| The Land of Counterpane | |
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| Animals | |
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| Bat, Bat | |
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| Bow-Wow, Says the Dog | |
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| The Quarrelsome Kittens | |
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| To Market | |
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| Dickery, Dickery, Dare | |
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| A Guinea-Pig Song | |
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| Spring | |
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| The Tyger | |
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| The Lamb | |
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| Answer to a Child's Question | |
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| How Doth the Little Crocodile | |
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| Bee! I'm Expecting You! | |
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| The Frog | |
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| The Naming of Cats | |
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| The Song of the Jellicles | |
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| The Opossum's Dream | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index of First Lines | |