Monday's Child

(notes (date 2025-07-09) (category literature) (status evergreen) (confidence certain) (importance 3) (tags poetry criticism nursery-rhymes))

Traditional fortune-telling nursery rhyme that predicts a child's character based on their day of birth.

First Recorded: 1838, in A. E. Bray's book Traditions of Devonshire, Volume 2, p. 124.

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 a living And the child that is born on the Sabbath day Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.