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Lyricist (s) William Miller. "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.
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Aug 23, 2020 · You'd be hard-pressed to find a person unfamiliar with the sweet children's bedtime tale - but did you know that its creator was the Dennistoun poet William Miller?
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
Aug 22, 2019 · William Miller: The Glasgow poet who wrote Wee Willie Winkie for the world - but died in poverty. By Alison Campsie. Published 22nd Aug 2019, 17:49 BST. Miller's impact spanned time and place....
- Alison Campsie
By William Miller. 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,
“Wee Willie Winkie” is a nursery rhyme original from the Scotland written by William Miller. The lyrics were published for the first time in the Scottish poetry and song anthology ” Whistle-binkie” in 1841. An English version only appeared in 1844.
In 1842, Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside was published and contained the rhyme Wee Willie Winkie. The poem would go on to become known in other countries, in translation, and made Miller famous at the time.
