Rossetti wrote these short verses for the youngest children: a motherless lambkin on a hill, a baby fast asleep, three plum buns shared at a stile, a linnet in a gilded cage, riddles about coal and diamonds. Some are playful, some tender, and a few are touched with the sorrow of infant death that Victorian families knew well.
Among the finest children’s verse in English, a book to read aloud at bedtime. Download the free EPUB.