Booh! (Eugene Field Poems)
On afternoons, when baby boy has had a splendid nap,And sits, like any monarch on his throne, in nurse's lap,In ...
On afternoons, when baby boy has had a splendid nap,And sits, like any monarch on his throne, in nurse's lap,In ...
Now lithe and listen, gentles all, Now lithe ye all and harkUnto a ballad I shall sing About Buena Park.Of ...
Out of the woods by the creek cometh a calling for Peter,And from the orchard a voice echoes and echoes ...
Whenas ye plaisaunt Aperille shoures have washed and purged awayeYe poysons and ye rheums of earth to make a merrie ...
Thar showed up out'n Denver in the spring uv '81A man who'd worked with Dana on the Noo York Sun.His ...
Up yonder in Buena ParkThere is a famous spot,In legend and in historyYclept the Waller Lot.There children play in daytimeAnd ...
_Deere Chryste, let not the cheere of earth, To fill our hearts with heedless mirth This holy Christmasse time; ...
Away down East where I was reared amongst my Yankee kith,There used to live a pretty girl whose name was ...
Once on a time a friend of mine prevailed on me to go To see the dazzling splendors of a ...
When I was broke in London in the fall of '89, I chanced to spy in Oxford Street this tantalizing ...
My books are on their shelves againAnd clouds lie low with mist and rain.Afar the Arno murmurs lowThe tale of ...
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea—The land of stoves and sunshine is good enough ...
IThere, there, poor dog, my faithful friend, Pay you no heed unto my sorrow:But feast to-day while yet you may,— ...
Father calls me William, sister calls me Will,Mother calls me Willie, but the fellers call me Bill!Mighty glad I ain't ...
The dull world clamors at my feet And asks my hand and helping sweet; And wonders when the time shall ...
I shall tell you in rhyme how, once on a time,Three tailors tramped up to the inn Ingleheim, On ...
'Tis years, soubrette, since last we met; And yet—ah, yet, how swift and tenderMy thoughts go back in time's dull ...
Us two wuz boys when we fell out,— Nigh to the age uv my youngest now;Don't rec'lect what't wuz about, ...
Lyman and Frederick and Jim, one day, Set out in a great big ship—Steamed to the ocean adown the bay ...
Have you ever heard the wind go "Yooooo"?'T is a pitiful sound to hear!It seems to chill you through and ...
I count my treasures o'er with care.— The little toy my darling knew, A little sock of faded hue,A little ...
Out yonder in the moonlight, wherein God's Acre lies,Go angels walking to and fro, singing their lullabies.Their radiant wings are ...
If I were Francois Villon and Francois Villon I, What would it matter to me how the time might drag ...
Lie in my arms, Ailsie, my bairn,— Lie in my arms and dinna greit;Long time been past syn I kenned ...
A beggar-man crept to my side One bitter, wintry time; "I want to buy ...
O gracious jar,--my friend, my twin, Born at the time when I was born,--Whether tomfoolery you inspireOr animate with love's ...
How cool and fair this cellar where My throne a dusky cask is;To do no thing but just to ...
'Tis the time of the year's sundown, and flame Hangs on the maple bough; And June is the faded ...
You ask me, friend, Why I don't sendThe long since due-and-paid-for numbers; Why, songless, I ...
To Scythian and Cantabrian plots, Pay them no heed, O Quintius! So long as we From care are ...
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