Two short rhymes bundled together: a riddle about something stuck fast to the King's kitchen door, and a merry verse about Willy Wilkin kissing the milkmaids and setting them all laughing. Both are built for a bouncy, playful read.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
Hick-a-more, Hack-a-more,
On the King's kitchen door,
All the King's horses,
And all the King's men,
Couldn't drive Hick-a-more, Hack-a-more,
Off the King's kitchen door.
WILLY, WILLY
Willy, Willy Wilkin
Kissed the maids a-milking,
Fa, la, la!
And with his merry daffing
He set them all a-laughing,
Ha, ha, ha!
About this rhyme
riddle rhyme
This one is a riddle rather than a story: something that not even all the king's horses and all the king's men can shift from the kitchen door. The title gives the answer away, sunshine, so it works well as a guessing game if you say it line by line and hold the title back until the end.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition