Inspiration

• Adventures of Isabel - Ogden Nash
  Ogden Nash
  Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".-Early life:Nash was born in Rye, New York...
  
  
• Autumn Lullaby - Anonymous
• Bleezer's Ice-Cream - Jack Prelutsky
  Jack Prelutsky
  Jack Prelutsky is an American writer of children's poetry. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, Carolynn.-Early life:...
  
  
• Calico Pie - Edward Lear
  Edward Lear
  Edward Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularised.-Biography:...
  
  
• Crying, My Little One - Christina Rossetti
  Christina Rossetti
  Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems...
  
  
• If No One Ever Marries Me - Laurence Alma-Tadema
  Laurence Alma-Tadema
  Laurence Alma-Tadema , was an English novelist and poet of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who worked in many genres...
  
  
• Indian Names - Lydia Huntley Sigourney
• I Saw a Ship A-Sailing - Anonymous
• It Makes a Change - Mervyn Peake
  Mervyn Peake
  Mervyn Laurence Peake was an English writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. They are sometimes compared to the work of his older contemporary J. R. R...
  
  
• Equestrienne - Rachel Field
  Rachel Field
  Rachel Lyman Field was an American novelist, poet, and author of children's fiction. She is best known for her Newbery Medal–winning novel for young adults, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, published in 1929. She won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award twice...
  
  
• Griselda - Eleanor Farjeon
  Eleanor Farjeon
  Eleanor Farjeon was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. Many of her works had charming illustrations by Edward Ardizzone. Some of her correspondence has also been published...
  
  
• Maggie and Milly and Molly and May - E. E. Cummings
  E. E. Cummings
  Edward Estlin Cummings , popularly known as E. E. Cummings, with the abbreviated form of his name often written by others in lowercase letters as e.e. cummings , was an American poet, painter, essayist, author, and playwright...
  
  
• Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience - Charles Causley
  Charles Causley
  Charles Stanley Causley, CBE, FRSL was a Cornish poet, schoolmaster and writer. His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall....
  
  
• Spring and Fall - Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous 20th-century fame established him among the leading Victorian poets...
  
  
• Sweet and a Lullaby - Anonymous
• The Blindmen and the Elephant - John Godfrey Saxe
  John Godfrey Saxe
  John Godfrey Saxe I was an American poet perhaps best known for his re-telling of the Indian parable "The Blindmen and the Elephant", which introduced the story to a Western audience.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Dancing Bear - Albert Paine
• The Janitor's Boy - Nathalia Crane
  Nathalia Crane
  Nathalia Clara Ruth Crane was a poet and novelist who became famous as a child prodigy after the publication of her first book of poetry at age 10. Her poetry was first published in The New York Sun when she was only 9 years old, the paper unaware that she was a child...
  
  
• The King of China's Daughter - Anonymous
• The Land of Nod - Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Stevenson
  Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde....
  
  
• The Man in the Wilderness - Anonymous
• The Peppery Man - Arthur Macy
• The Sleepy Giant - Charles E. Carryl
  Charles E. Carryl
  Charles Edward Carryl was an American children's literature author.-Biography:Born in New York, his father was a prosperous businessman. Carryl became a successful businessman and stockbroker, and for 34 years from 1874 he held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange...
  
  
• The Walloping Window Blind - Charles E. Carryl
  Charles E. Carryl
  Charles Edward Carryl was an American children's literature author.-Biography:Born in New York, his father was a prosperous businessman. Carryl became a successful businessman and stockbroker, and for 34 years from 1874 he held a seat on the New York Stock Exchange...
  
  
• Topsyturvey-World - William Brighty Rands
  William Brighty Rands
  William Brighty Rands was a British writer and one of the major authors of nursery rhymes of Victorian era.- Biography :...
  
  
• Vain and Careless - Robert Graves
  Robert Graves
  Robert von Ranke Graves 24 July 1895 – 7 December 1985 was an English poet, translator and novelist. During his long life he produced more than 140 works...
  
  

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External links

• Natalie Merchant, "Leave Your Sleep" by Billboard
  Billboard (magazine)
  Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...