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POEMS OF CHILDHOOD
BY EVGENE FIELD
WITH ILLVSTRATIONS
BY MAXFIELD PARRISH

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
NEW YORK MCMIV
]

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

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

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