 Hush-a-bye, baby, on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, bough, cradle, and all.  The Living Age - Page 3761893Full view - About this book
 | United States National Museum - 1889 - 884 pages
...upon the limbs to rock, auswering literally to the nursery rhyme : Rock a-bye baby upon the tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the...bough bends the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, and cradle, and all. (5) It is also a play-house and baby-jumper. On many, uearly all, specimens may... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - 1892 - 626 pages
...leaves only look after themselves. Shall we sing to this baby ? ' ' Rock-a-bye baby on the tree top, When the wind blows, the cradle will rock, When the bough bends the cradle will fall, Down comes baby, cradle and all." Now this is what happened to the little acorn shell, but it fell in some... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1889 - 356 pages
...queen ; Sister's a lady, and wears a gold ring ; Brother's a drummer, and drums for the king. ROCKABY, baby, on the tree-top; When the wind blows the cradle will rock; When the bough breaks the cradle will fall ; Down will come baby and cradle and all. BY-LO, baby-bunting! Papa's gone... | |
 | 1911 - 200 pages
...a lot Of the romance of life that we old fogies got. HONEY-BUG BABY. EMMA C. DULANEY. :'Rock-a-by, baby, on the tree-top! When the wind blows the cradle will rock: When the bough breaks the cradle will fall, Down will come baby, cradle and all." [Music on page 149.] "Rock-a-by,... | |
 | William Wetmore Story - 1890 - 324 pages
...essentially songs made to be sung ; as, for instance, — " Little Bopeep has lost his sheep ; " or — " Hush-a-bye baby on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock ; 1 " Boopeep '' is the Limitour — the begging friar. When the bought breaks the cradle will fall,... | |
 | 1891 - 198 pages
...pictures come and go ; Again I hear the mother's voice singing so soft and low : [Sing.] "Rock-a-by, baby, on the tree-top; When the wind blows the cradle will rock." Ah, me ! where once the baby heads the downy pillows pressed, Within my ample oaken hood the spider... | |
 | George Frederick Holmes, Luther W. Anderson - 1891 - 158 pages
...and smooth as satin. 6. Why, mamma ! I think that must be what the little song means, " Rock-a-bye baby on the tree-top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock." Can I see the " tree-babies " if I look inside of a cradle ? 7. They are too small for you to see,... | |
 | 1892 - 456 pages
...survival and what Major Powell calls acculturation. For instance, our " Rock-a-by baby on a tree top, When the wind blows the cradle will rock, When the bough bends the cradle will fall, And down will come cradle and baby and all " is not fitted to our cradles, but it harmonizes exactly... | |
 | Rebecca D. Rickoff - 1892 - 136 pages
...is only three years old. May laid her sister in the hammock and sang to her. She sang, " Rock-a-by baby On the tree-top ; "When the wind blows, The cradle will rock." Soon her little sister went to sleep. And now May is glad to look at her new book. star a arm Here... | |
 | 1893 - 662 pages
...sweet as apple, bright and gay. Sleep the mighty all has flown, To Alexandria she has gone ; Nani, thou canary bright, Who my brain bewilders quite....which is not very difficult to trace to the French " He bas ! 'la le loup," which in turn brings our thoughts to bear upon a universal nursery story favourite,... | |
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