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American

Eugene Field

1850–1895

Eugene Field (1850–1895) was an American journalist and poet, born in St. Louis. He wrote a widely read newspaper column, first in Denver and then for the Chicago Daily News, and became known above all for his verses about children.

His best-loved poems, among them “Wynken, Blynken and Nod,” “Little Boy Blue” and “The Sugar-Plum Tree,” were gathered in With Trumpet and Drum (1892) and Love-Songs of Childhood (1894). The poems here follow the combined Poems of Childhood issued by Charles Scribner’s Sons in 1904.

Poems (326)

  1. With Trumpet and Drum
  2. Krinken
  3. The Naughty Doll
  4. Nightfall in Dordrecht
  5. Intry-Mintry
  6. Pittypat and Tippytoe
  7. Balow, My Bonnie
  8. The Hawthorne Children
  9. Little Blue Pigeon (Japanese Lullaby)
  10. The Lyttel Boy
  11. Teeny-Weeny
  12. Nellie
  13. Norse Lullaby
  14. The Sugar-Plum Tree
  15. Grandma’s Prayer
  16. Some Time
  17. The Fire-Hangbird’s Nest
  18. Buttercup, Poppy, Forget-Me-Not
  19. Gold and Love for Dearie
  20. The Peace of Christmas-Time
  21. To a Little Brook
  22. Croodlin’ Doo
  23. Little Mistress Sans-Merci
  24. Long Ago
  25. In the Firelight
  26. Cobbler and Stork (Armenian Folk-Lore)
  27. “Lollyby, Lolly, Lollyby”
  28. Lizzie and the Baby
  29. At the Door
  30. Hugo’s “Child at Play”
  31. Wynken, Blynken and Nod (Dutch Lullaby)
  32. Hi-Spy
  33. Little Boy Blue
  34. Father’s Letter
  35. Jewish Lullaby
  36. Our Whippings
  37. The Armenian Mother (Folk-Song)
  38. Heigho, My Dearie
  39. To a Usurper
  40. The Bell-Flower Tree
  41. Fairy and Child
  42. The Grandsire
  43. Hushaby, Sweet My Own
  44. Child and Mother
  45. Medieval Eventide Song
  46. The Little Peach
  47. Armenian Lullaby
  48. Christmas Treasures
  49. Oh, Little Child
  50. Ganderfeather’s Gift
  51. Bambino (Sicilian Folk-Song)
  52. Little Homer’s Slate
  53. The Rock-a-By Lady
  54. “Booh!”
  55. Garden and Cradle
  56. The Night Wind
  57. Kissing Time
  58. Jest ’Fore Christmas
  59. Beard and Baby
  60. The Dinkey-Bird
  61. The Drum
  62. The Dead Babe
  63. The Happy Household
  64. So, So, Rock-a-By So!
  65. The Song of Luddy-Dud
  66. The Duel
  67. Good-Children Street
  68. The Delectable Ballad of the Waller Lot
  69. The Fly-Away Horse
  70. The Stork
  71. The Bottle Tree
  72. Googly-Goo
  73. The Bench-Legged Fyce
  74. Little Miss Brag
  75. The Humming-Top
  76. Lady Button-Eyes
  77. The Ride to Bumpville
  78. The Brook
  79. Picnic-Time
  80. Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks
  81. The Shut-Eye Train
  82. Little-Oh-Dear
  83. Swing High and Swing Low
  84. When I Was a Boy
  85. At Play
  86. A Valentine
  87. Little All-Aloney
  88. The Cunnin’ Little Thing
  89. The Doll’s Wooing
  90. Inscription for My Little Son’s Silver Plate
  91. Seein’ Things
  92. Fisherman Jim’s Kids
  93. “Fiddle-Dee-Dee”
  94. Over the Hills and Far Away
  95. Our Two Opinions
  96. Father's Way
  97. To My Mother
  98. Körner's Battle Prayer
  99. Gosling Stew
  100. Catullus to Lesbia
  101. John Smith
  102. St. Martin's Lane
  103. The Singing in God's Acre
  104. Dear Old London
  105. The Clink of the Ice
  106. The Bells of Notre Dame
  107. Lover's Lane, Saint Jo
  108. Crumpets and Tea
  109. An Imitation of Dr. Watts
  110. Modjesky as Cameel
  111. Telling the Bees
  112. The Tea-Gown
  113. Doctors
  114. Barbara
  115. The Café Molineau
  116. Holly and Ivy
  117. The Boltons, 22
  118. Dibdin's Ghost
  119. The Bottle and the Bird
  120. An Eclogue from Virgil
  121. Ashes on the Slide
  122. The Lost Cupid of Moschus
  123. Christmas Eve
  124. Carlsbad
  125. At Cheyenne
  126. The Pneumogastric Nerve
  127. Telka
  128. Plaint of the Missouri 'Coon in the Berlin Zoölogical Gardens
  129. The Partridge
  130. Corinthian Hall
  131. The Red, Red West
  132. The Three Kings of Cologne
  133. Ipswich
  134. Bill's Tenor and My Bass
  135. Fiducit
  136. The "St. Jo Gazette"
  137. In Amsterdam
  138. To the Passing Saint
  139. The Fisherman's Feast
  140. The Onion Tart
  141. Grandma's Bombazine
  142. Rare Roast Beef
  143. Old Times, Old Friends, Old Love
  144. Bion's Song of Eros
  145. Mr. Billings of Louisville
  146. Poet and King
  147. Lydia Dick
  148. Always Right
  149. "Trot, My Good Steed, Trot!"
  150. Providence and the Dog
  151. Gettin' On
  152. The Schnellest Zug
  153. Bethlehem-Town
  154. The Doings of Delsarte
  155. The Dream-Ship
  156. To Cinna
  157. Ballad of Women I Love
  158. Suppose
  159. Mysterious Doings
  160. With Two Spoons for Two Spoons
  161. Mary Smith
  162. Jessie
  163. To Emma Abbott
  164. The Great Journalist in Spain
  165. Love Song--Heine
  166. The Stoddards
  167. The Three Tailors
  168. The Jaffa and Jerusalem Railway
  169. Hugo's "Pool in the Forest"
  170. A Rhine-Land Drinking Song
  171. Der Mann im Keller
  172. Two Idylls from Bion the Smyrnean
  173. The Wooing of the Southland (Alaskan Ballad)
  174. Hymn (From the German of Martin Luther)
  175. Star of the East
  176. Twin Idols
  177. Two Valentines
  178. Mother and Sphinx (Egyptian Folk-Song)
  179. A Spring Poem from Bion
  180. Béranger's "To My Old Coat"
  181. Ben Apfelgarten
  182. A Heine Love Song
  183. Uhland's "Chapel"
  184. The Dreams
  185. In New Orleans
  186. My Playmates
  187. Stoves and Sunshine
  188. A Drinking Song
  189. The Limitations of Youth
  190. The Bow-Leg Boy
  191. The Straw Parlor
  192. A Piteous Plaint
  193. The Discreet Collector
  194. The Wind
  195. A Paraphrase
  196. With Brutus in St. Jo
  197. The Two Little Skeezucks
  198. Pan Liveth
  199. Dr. Sam (To Miss Grace King)
  200. Winfreda (A Ballad in the Anglo-Saxon Tongue)
  201. Lyman, Frederick, and Jim (For the Fellowship Club)
  202. By My Sweetheart
  203. The Peter-Bird
  204. Sister's Cake
  205. Abu Midjan
  206. Ed
  207. Jennie
  208. Contentment
  209. "Guess"
  210. New-Year's Eve
  211. Old Spanish Song
  212. The Broken Ring
  213. In Praise of Contentment (Horace's Odes, III, I)
  214. The Ballad of the Taylor Pup
  215. After Reading Trollope's History of Florence
  216. A Lullaby
  217. "The Old Homestead"
  218. Christmas Hymn
  219. A Paraphrase of Heine (Lyric Intermezzo)
  220. The Convalescent Gripster
  221. The Sleeping Child
  222. The Two Coffins
  223. Clare Market
  224. A Dream of Sunshine
  225. Uhland's White Stag
  226. How Salty Win Out
  227. Hoosier Lyrics Paraphrased
  228. Answer to Minnie Lee
  229. Our Lady of the Mine
  230. Answer to His Queen
  231. Alaskan Balladry--Skans in Love
  232. The Biggest Fish
  233. Bonnie Jim Campbell: A Legislative Memory
  234. A Wail
  235. Clendenin's Lament
  236. On the Wedding of G. C. (June 2, 1886)
  237. To G. C. (July 12, 1886)
  238. To Dr. F. W. R.
  239. Horace's Ode to "Lydia" Roche
  240. A Paraphrase, Circa 1715
  241. A Paraphrase, Ostensibly by Dr. I. W.
  242. Horace I, 27
  243. Heine's "Widow or Daughter"
  244. Horace II, 20
  245. Horace's Spring Poem (Odes I, 4)
  246. Horace to Ligurine (Odes IV, 10)
  247. Horace on His Muscle (Epode VI)
  248. Horace to Maecenas (Odes III, 29)
  249. Horace in Love Again (Epode XI)
  250. "Good-By--God Bless You!"
  251. Horace (Epode XIV)
  252. Horace I, 23
  253. A Paraphrase by Chaucer
  254. Horace I, 5
  255. Horace I, 20
  256. Envoy
  257. Horace II, 7
  258. Horace I, 11
  259. Horace I, 13
  260. Horace IV, 1
  261. Horace to His Patron
  262. The "Ars Poetica" of Horace--XVIII (Lines 323-333)
  263. Horace I, 34
  264. Horace I, 33
  265. The "Ars Poetica" of Horace--I (Lines 1-23)
  266. Reid, the Candidate
  267. The Fifth of July
  268. The Romance of a Watch
  269. Our Baby
  270. The Color That Suits Me Best
  271. How to "Fill"
  272. Politics in 1888
  273. The Baseball Score
  274. Chicago Newspaper Life
  275. The Mighty West
  276. April
  277. Report of the Baseball Game
  278. The Rose
  279. Kansas City vs. Detroit
  280. Me and Bilkammle
  281. To the Detroit Baseball Club
  282. A Ballad of Ancient Oaths
  283. An Old Song Revised
  284. The Grateful Patient
  285. The Beginning and the End
  286. Uncle Ephraim
  287. Thirty-Nine
  288. Horace I, 18
  289. Morning Hymn
  290. In Holland
  291. A Valentine (Your Gran'ma, In Her Youth)
  292. Casey's Table d'Hôte
  293. Madge: Ye Hoyden
  294. The Bibliomaniac's Prayer
  295. The Truth About Horace
  296. The Death of Robin Hood
  297. Horace and Lydia Reconciled
  298. Mother and Child
  299. Little Mack
  300. To Robin Goodfellow
  301. Apple-Pie and Cheese
  302. Horace III. 13
  303. The Divine Lullaby
  304. De Amicitiis
  305. The Wanderer
  306. Soldier, Maiden, and Flower
  307. Horace to Melpomene
  308. Ailsie, My Bairn
  309. Uhland's "Three Cavaliers"
  310. Béranger's "My Last Song Perhaps"
  311. Mr. Dana, of the New York Sun
  312. The Twenty-Third Psalm
  313. The Bibliomaniac's Bride
  314. Horace to Phyllis
  315. Chrystmasse of Olde
  316. The "Happy Isles" of Horace
  317. Hugo's "Flower to Butterfly"
  318. A Proper Trewe Idyll of Camelot
  319. Béranger's "Ma Vocation"
  320. The Conversazzhyony
  321. Prof. Vere de Blaw
  322. Marthy's Younkit
  323. In Flanders
  324. Yvytot
  325. To a Soubrette
  326. Béranger's "Broken Fiddle"

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