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Cover of Poems of Childhood

Poems of Childhood

Eugene Field · 1904

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Chapters

A long one: read it a chapter a night.

  1. The Hawthorne Children 16
  2. With Trumpet and Drum
  3. Krinken
  4. The Naughty Doll
  5. Nightfall in Dordrecht
  6. Intry-Mintry
  7. Pittypat and Tippytoe
  8. The Hawthorne Children
  9. The Lyttel Boy
  10. Teeny-Weeny
  11. Nellie
  12. The Sugar-Plum Tree
  13. The Fire-Hangbird’s Nest
  14. To a Little Brook
  15. Long Ago
  16. Cobbler and Stork
  17. Lizzie and the Baby
  18. At the Door
  19. Father’s Letter
  20. Our Whippings
  21. The Armenian Mother
  22. The Bell-Flower Tree
  23. The Grandsire
  24. Medieval Eventide Song
  25. Christmas Treasures
  26. Ganderfeather’s Gift
  27. Bambino
  28. The Rock-a-by Lady
  29. The Night Wind
  30. Jest ’Fore Christmas
  31. The Dinkey-Bird
  32. The Drum
  33. The Happy Household
  34. The Duel
  35. Good-Children Street
  36. The Delectable Ballad of the Waller Lot
  37. The Fly-Away Horse
  38. Googly-Goo
  39. The Bench-Legged Fyce
  40. Little Miss Brag
  41. Lady Button-Eyes
  42. The Ride to Bumpville
  43. Picnic-Time
  44. The Shut-Eye Train
  45. When I Was a Boy
  46. At Play
  47. The Doll’s Wooing
  48. Seein’ Things
  49. Fisherman Jim’s Kids
  50. Over the Hills and Far Away

Public domain. Source text via Project Gutenberg, PG boilerplate removed. View the source edition

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