Eugene Field

Gender: 
Male
  • Arrayed in snow-white pants and vest,
      And other rainment fair to view,
      I stood before my sweetheart Sue—
    The charming creature I love best.
    “Tell me and does my costume suit?”
      I asked that apple of my eye—
      And then the charmer made reply,...

  • Jim was a fisherman, up on the hill,
      Over the beach lived he and his wife,
    In a little house—you can see it still—
      An’ their two fair boys; upon my life
    You never seen two likelier kids,
      In spite of their antics an’ tricks an’ noise,
      Than...

  • I Ain’t afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice,
    An’ things ’at girls are skeered uv I think are awful nice!
    I ’m pretty brave, I guess; an’ yet I hate to go to bed,
    For, when I ’m tucked up warm an’ snug an’ when my prayers are said,
    Mother tells...

  • Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night
      Sailed off in a wooden shoe—
    Sailed on a river of misty light
      Into a sea of dew.
    “Where are you going, and what do you wish?”
      The old moon asked the three.
    “We have come to fish for the herring-fish...

  • Sleep, little pigeon, and fold your wings,—
      Little blue pigeon with velvet eyes;
    Sleep to the singing of mother-bird swinging—
      Swinging the nest where her little one lies.

    Away out yonder I see a star,—
      Silvery star with a tinkling song;
    To...

  • To the FOUNTAIN OF BANDUSIA
    O FOUNTAIN of Bandusia!
      Whence crystal waters flow,
    With garlands gay and wine I ’ll pay
      The sacrifice I owe;
    A sportive kid with budding horns
      I have, whose crimson blood
    Anon shall dye and sanctify...

  • Dear wife, last midnight, whilst I read
      The tomes you so despise,
    A spectre rose beside the bed,
      And spake in this true wise:
    “From Canaan’s beatific coast
      I ’ve come to visit thee,
    For I am Frognall Dibdin’s ghost,”
      Says Dibdin’s...

  • Keep me, I pray, in wisdom’s way,
      That I may truths eternal seek;
    I need protecting care to-day,—
      My purse is light, my flesh is weak.
    So banish from my erring heart
      All baleful appetites and hints
    Of Satan’s fascinating art,
      Of...

  • Us two wuz boys when we fell out,—
      Nigh to the age uv my youngest now;
    Don’t rec’lect what ’t wuz about,
      Some small deeff’rence, I ’ll allow.
    Lived next neighbors twenty years,
      A-hatin’ each other, me ’nd Jim,—
    He havin’ his opinyin uv me,...

  • Some time there ben a lyttel boy
      That wolde not renne and play,
    And helpless like that little tyke
      Ben allwais in the way.
    “Goe, make you merrie with the rest,”
      His weary moder cried;
    But with a frown he catcht her gown
      And hong...