Eugene Field
Eugene Field
Eugene Field, Sr.was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He was known as the "poet of childhood."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth2 September 1850
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
cheer book years
Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.
blessed food night
But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.
wine honest candor
There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.
christmas girl boys
I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.
letters village maidens
Have you an unexpurgated copy of Hannah More's 'Letters to a Village Maiden'?
pie apples cheese
The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!
sea fishing rivers
I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.
jail congress statesmen
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.
ideas birth pendulums
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
kings fear play
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
girl baby pairs
Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
wings joy heaven
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it
night sea shoes
Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Sailed off in a wooden shoe, - Sailed on a river of crystal light Into a sea of dew.
beautiful moon night
Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod, one night sailed off in a wooden shoe; Sailed off on a river of crystal light into a sea of dew. "Where are you going and what do you wish?" the old moon asked the three. "We've come to fish for the herring fish that live in this beautiful sea. Nets of silver and gold have we," said Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod.