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
cannot changed hath knee mama papa sad sang sing songs time took
I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, And yet I cannot say I'm sad That time hath changed us so, For when I used to sing those songs, My Papa blankety blanked, And Mama took me on her knee And I, alas! was spanked
asking bill mistake tax time
I'm being assessed for it. I get nothing, ... I was told by the time I got my tax bill I would get water. My mistake was in not asking them what year.
dog sat side table
The gingham dog and the calico cat, Side by side on the table sat
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.
fishing caught fishes
The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.
fall drinking boys
How gracious those dews of solace that over my senses fall At the clink of the ice in the pitcher the boy brings up the hall.
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.