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Wee Willie Winkie. "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. 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. The six-year-old is well-liked by everyone in the regiment, but becomes especially good friends with a subaltern he nicknames 'Coppy'. One day, Winkie confesses to Coppy that ...
- Rudyard Kipling
- 1888
Wee Willie Winkie. “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.
Wee Willie Winkie. " Wee Willie Winkie " is a Scottish nursery rhyme. The main character in the rhyme is well-known as a personification of sleep. The poem was written by William Miller and titled "Willie Winkie", first published in Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside in 1841. [1][2][3] It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13711.
A wee, stumpie, stousie, that canna rin his lane, That has a battle aye wi’ sleep afore he’ll close an e’e-. But a kiss frae aff his rosy lips gies strength anew to me. Willie Winkie was a Jacobite nickname for George III (King of Great Britain from 1760 to 1820). Some people have tried to find a secret interpretation behind the words.
The cantonment was alive with the men of the 195th hunting for Wee Willie Winkie, and the Colonel finally overtook E Company, far too exhausted to swear, struggling in the pebbles of the river-bed. Up the hill under which Wee Willie Winkie’s Bad Men were discussing the wisdom of carrying off the child and the girl, a look-out fired two shots.
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Lyricist (s) William Miller. "Wee Willie Winkie" is a Scottish nursery rhyme whose titular figure has become popular the world over as a personification of sleep. The poem was written by William Miller and titled "Willie Winkie", first published in Whistle-binkie: Stories for the Fireside in 1841. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13711.
