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"Wee Willie Winkie" is a Scottish nursery rhyme whose titular figure has become popular as a personification of sleep. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13711. Scots poet William Miller (1810-1872), appears to have popularised a pre-existing nursery rhyme, adding additional verses to make up a five stanza poem.
Wee Willie Winkie and Other Child Stories (published 1888) is a collection of short stories by Rudyard Kipling . Percival William Williams, who is affectionately called 'Wee Willie Winkie' because of the nursery rhyme, is the only son of the Colonel of the 195th.
- Rudyard Kipling
- 1888
23. Aug. 2020 · The story of 'Wee Willie Winkie' Glaswegian poet William Miller - the Laureate of the Nursery. You'd be hard-pressed to find a person unfamiliar with the sweet children's bedtime tale - but...
The story. Wee Willie Winkie is the six-year-old son of the Colonel, and much loved by all in the regiment. He is subject to military discipline, but breaks bounds on his pony to follow a young woman who is riding – very rashly – into tribal territory.
22. Aug. 2019 · William Miller’s poem of a wee boy running ‘up stairs an’ doon stairs in his nicht-gown’ has helped children fall asleep around the world for more than 170 years. But despite widespread...
- Alison Campsie
Wee Willie Winkie. Rins through the toun, Up stairs and doun stairs. In his nicht-gown, Tirling at the window, Crying at the lock, “Are the weans in their bed, For it’s now ten o’clock? “Hey, Willie Winkie, Are ye coming ben? The cat’s singing g ...
Wee Willie Winkie. Rins through the toun, Up stairs and doun stairs. In his nicht-gown, Tirling at the window, Crying at the lock, “Are the weans in their bed, For it’s now ten o’clock? “Hey, Willie Winkie, Are ye coming ben? The cat’s singing grey thrums. To the sleeping hen, The dog’s spelder’d on the floor, And disna gie a cheep,
