# Mother Goose: Little Bo-Peep - Source: The Real Mother Goose (mother-goose.gutenberg.org), Public domain, Blanche Fisher Wright, illustrator, 1916, via Project Gutenberg - Reading level: Ages 4 to 6 - Subjects: Poems, Animals, Nature - Topics: little, bo-peep, children, clock, come, dame - Length: 403 words, about 3 min - Original: - Page: - Open in Sprouts: Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, And can't tell where to find them; Leave them alone, and they'll come home, And bring their tails behind them. Little Bo-Peep fell fast asleep, And dreamt she heard them bleating; But when she awoke, she found it a joke, For still they all were fleeting. Then up she took her little crook, Determined for to find them; She found them indeed, but it made her heart bleed, For they'd left all their tails behind 'em! It happened one day, as Bo-peep did stray Unto a meadow hard by-- There she espied their tails, side by side, All hung on a tree to dry. She heaved a sigh and wiped her eye, And over the hillocks she raced; And tried what she could, as a shepherdess should, That each tail should be properly placed. ## Little Boy Blue Little Boy Blue, come, blow your horn! The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn. Where's the little boy that looks after the sheep? Under the haystack, fast asleep! ## Rain Rain, rain, go away, Come again another day; Little Johnny wants to play. ## The Clock There's a neat little clock,-- In the schoolroom it stands,-- And it points to the time With its two little hands. And may we, like the clock, Keep a face clean and bright, With hands ever ready To do what is right. ## Fingers And Toes Every lady in this land Has twenty nails, upon each hand Five, and twenty on hands and feet: All this is true, without deceit. ## A Seasonable Song Piping hot, smoking hot. What I've got You have not. Hot gray pease, hot, hot, hot; Hot gray pease, hot. ## Dame Trot And Her Cat Dame Trot and her cat Led a peaceable life, When they were not troubled With other folks' strife. When Dame had her dinner Pussy would wait, And was sure to receive A nice piece from her plate. ## Three Children On The Ice Three children sliding on the ice Upon a summer's day, As it fell out, they all fell in, The rest they ran away. Oh, had these children been at school, Or sliding on dry ground, Ten thousand pounds to one penny They had not then been drowned. Ye parents who have children dear, And ye, too, who have none, If you would keep them safe abroad Pray keep them safe at home. ## Picture credits - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain () - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain () - Blanche Fisher Wright, Public domain ()