Poems of Childhood — Eugene Field
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Title : Poems of childhood Author : Eugene Field Illustrator : Maxfield Parrish Release date : March 10, 2025 [eBook #75578] Language : English Original publication : New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904 Other information and formats : www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75578 Credits : Carla Foust and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) POEMS OF CHILDHOOD Poems of Childhood | Project Gutenberg POEMS OF CHILDHOOD BY EVGENE FIELD WITH ILLVSTRATIONS BY MAXFIELD PARRISH CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS NEW YORK MCMIV Poems of Childhood | Project Gutenberg WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM Copyright, 1892 By Mary French Field LOVE SONGS OF CHILDHOOD Copyright, 1894 By Eugene Field Copyright, 1904 By Charles Scribner’s Sons Published, September, 1904 Poems of Childhood | Project Gutenberg CONTENTS PAGE With Trumpet and Drum 1 Krinken 3 The Naughty Doll 5 Nightfall in Dordrecht 7 Intry-Mintry 9 Pittypat and Tippytoe 11 Balow, my Bonnie 14 The Hawthorne Children 16 Little Blue Pigeon (Japanese Lullaby) 19 The Lyttel Boy 20 Teeny-Weeny 22 Nellie 25 Norse Lullaby 27 The Sugar-Plum Tree 28 Grandma’s Prayer 30 Some Time 31 The Fire-Hangbird’s Nest 33 Buttercup, Poppy, Forget-me-not 36 Gold and Love for Dearie 38 The Peace of Christmas-Time 40 To a Little Brook 42 Croodlin’ Doo [A] 45 Little Mistress Sans-Merci 46 Long Ago 48 In the Firelight 50 Cobbler and Stork (Armenian Folk-Lore) 52 “ Lollyby, lolly, Lollyby ” 56 Lizzie and the Baby 58 At the Door 60 Hugo’s “Child at Play” 61 Wynken, Blynken and Nod (Dutch Lullaby) 62 Hi-Spy 65 Little Boy Blue 66 Father’s Letter 68 Jewish Lullaby 71 Our Whippings 73 The Armenian Mother (Folk-Song) 76 Heigho, my Dearie 78 To a Usurper 80 The Bell-flower Tree 82 Fairy and Child 85 The Grandsire 87 Hushaby, Sweet my Own 89 Child and Mother 91 Medieval Eventide Song 93 The Little Peach 95 Armenian Lullaby 97 Christmas Treasures 99 Oh, Little Child 101 Ganderfeather’s Gift 102 Bambino (Sicilian Folk-Song) 104 Little Homer’s Slate 106 The Rock-a-By Lady 108 “ Booh! ” 110 Garden and Cradle 111 The Night Wind 112 Kissing Time 114 Jest ’fore Christmas 116 Beard and Baby 118 The Dinkey-Bird 120 The Drum 123 The Dead Babe 125 The Happy Household 127 So, so, Rock-a-by so! 129 The Song of Luddy-Dud 131 The Duel 133 Good-Children Street 135 The Delectable Ballad of the Waller Lot 137 The Fly-Away Horse 144 The Stork 147 The Bottle Tree 149 Googly-Goo 151 The Bench-Legged Fyce 154 Little Miss Brag 157 The Humming-Top 159 Lady Button-Eyes 161 The Ride to Bumpville 164 The Brook 166 Picnic-Time 168 Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks 170 The Shut-Eye Train 172 Little-Oh-Dear 175 Swing High and Swing Low 177 When I was a Boy 178 At Play 180 A Valentine 182 Little All-Aloney 184 The Cunnin’ Little Thing 186 The Doll’s Wooing 188 Inscription for My Little Son’s Silver Plate 190 Seein’ Things 191 Fisherman Jim’s Kids 193 “ Fiddle-Dee-Dee ” 196 Over the Hills and Far Away 198 FOOTNOTES: [A] Cooing Dove Poems of Childhood | Project Gutenberg ILLUSTRATIONS FROM DRAWINGS IN COLORS BY MAXFIELD PARRISH FACING PAGE With Trumpet and Drum 2 With big tin trumpet and little red drum, Marching like soldiers, the children come! The Sugar-Plum Tree 28 And you carry away of the treasure that rains As much as your apron can hold! Wynken, Blynken and Nod 62 Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe— Sailed on a river of crystal light, Into a sea of dew. The Little Peach 96 John took a bite and Sue a chew, And then the trouble began to brew,— Trouble the doctor couldn’t subdue. Too true! The Dinkey-Bird 120 In an ocean, ’way out yonder (As all sapient people know), Is the land of Wonder-Wander, Whither children love to go. The Fly-Away Horse 144 And the Fly-Away Horse seeks those far-away lands You little folk dream of at night— Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks 170 Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks Sit together, building blocks; Shuffle-Shoon is old and gray, Amber-Locks a little child. Seein’ Things 192 I woke up in the dark an’ saw things standin’ in a row, A-lookin’ at me cross-eyed an’ p’intin’ at me—so! Poems of Childhood | Project Gutenberg POEMS OF CHILDHOOD Poems of Childhood | Project Gutenberg WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM With big tin trumpet and little red drum, Marching like soldiers, the children come! It’s this way and that way they circle and file— My! but that music of theirs is fine! This way and that way, and after a while They march straight into this heart of mine! A sturdy old heart, but it has to succumb To the blare of that trumpet and beat of that drum! Come on, little people, from cot and from hall— This heart it hath welcome and room for you all! It will sing you its songs and warm you with love, As your dear little arms with my arms intertwine; It will rock you away to the dreamland above— Oh, a jolly old heart is this old heart of mine, And jollier still is it bound to become When you blow that big trumpet and beat that red drum! So come; though I see not his dear little face And hear not his voice in this jubilant place, I know he were happy to bid me enshrine His memory deep in my heart with your play— Ah me! but a love that is sweeter than mine Holdeth my boy in its keeping to-day! And my heart it is lonely—so, little folk, come, March in and make merry with trumpet and drum! With Trumpet and Drum Poems of Childhood | Project Gutenberg KRINKEN Krinken was a little child,— It was summer when he smiled. Oft the hoary sea and grim Stretched its white arms out to him, Calling, “Sun-child, come to me; Let me warm my heart with thee!” But the child heard not the sea. K