Monday's Child
Days of the week
In the form usually printed today, “Monday's Child” gives each day of the week a line of its own. It is English nursery-rhyme folklore, first printed in 1836 — not a claim about anyone actually born on that day.
“Monday's Child” was first printed by Anna Eliza Bray in A Description of the Part of Devonshire Bordering on the Tamar and the Tavy (1836), and was older than that in speech.
The lines are the rhyme as it is usually printed today, as Iona and Peter Opie give it in The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951). Bray's 1836 text differs in small ways and has no line for Sunday — it ends with the child born on Christmas Day — and each day's page gives her line beside today's.
Sunday
But the child that is born on Sabbath day, is bonny and blithe, good and gay.
Monday
Monday's child is fair of face.
Tuesday
Tuesday's child is full of grace.
Wednesday
Wednesday's child is full of woe.
Thursday
Thursday's child has far to go.
Friday
Friday's child is loving and giving.
Saturday
Saturday's child works hard for a living.