Poems by Eugene Field
The shut-eye train
... All aboard for Shut-Eye Town!Swifter than a wild bird's flight, ...
The singing in god's acre
... Sleep, oh, sleep!"From angel and from flower the years have learned that soothing song, ...
The stoddards
... Since I've broke the tenth commandment, why not break the eighth one next ...
The stork
... You cuddle, and you sleep!Last night my heart grew fonder - ...
The straw parlor
... When the cricket went "chirp," Miss Mousie would squeak ...
The Sugar-Plum Tree
... When you 've got to the tree, you would have a hard time ...
The three tailors
... They were broke, but the worst of it all, they were curst ...
The Truth About hHorace
... It is No. 25.He was a very owl, sir, ...
The Twenty-Third Psalm
... With oil anoints my head!Goodness and mercy shall be mine ...
The two little skeezucks
... That accrue from free use of one's paddies!"And now that you're speaking of things to eat," ...
The wanderer
... Or whether there cast when Ocean swept the Land, ...
The wind
... s over the grave of the Summer!""Thy breath that was fragrant anon with rapture of music and loving, ...
The wooing of the southland
... When comes my bride, O sea!"At the foot of the Southland's golden throne ...
Thirty-nine
... À bas with thirty-nine!You healthy, hulking girls and boys,-- ...
To a soubrette
... In song or dance, how did I hate 'em!At half-past ten came rapture--then ...
