Representative Poetry Online
On this day: June 12th
Random Poem of the Day
2Went up the hill,
3To fetch a pail of water;
4Jack fell down
5And broke his crown,
6And Gill came tumbling after.
Notes
1] The Opies add a second verse from other sources:
Up Jack got, and home did trot,See The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, ed. Iona and Peter Opie (1951; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), no. 254, pp. 224-26. Back to Line
As fast as he could caper,
To old Dame Dob, who patched his nob
With vinegar and brown paper.