Solomon Grundy

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

Nursery rhyme that traces the brief life of Solomon Grundy from birth to death within a single week.

First Recorded: 1842, in The Nursery Rhymes of England by James Orchard Halliwell.

Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on Wednesday, Took ill on Thursday, Worse on Friday, Died on Saturday, Buried on Sunday, And that was the end Of Solomon Grundy.