It's the nursery rhyme that inspired the title of a famous musical based on a 1913 G.B. Shaw work
... left one 
immortal book of poetry which is equally at home in the nursery and library: A ... 
His best work, which is notable for its dignity and moulded imagination, may be... [DOC] [TLE] A Glossary of Literary Terms, Seventh Edition - Ohio University [PAR] the separate entries in the Glossary are in the alphabetical order of their title 
terms, the ..... work is a "poem per se," a "poem written solely for the poem's sake"
; it was ...... through George Bernard Shaw and Noel Coward, to Neil Simon, Alan 
...... (not regarded by its exponents as derogatory) was based on qualities 
attributed.