The classic run through the week, giving each day's child a trait, from Monday's fair face to Sunday's bonny and blithe. One of the best-known of all nursery rhymes, and handy for teaching the days of the week.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for its living,
But the child that's born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition