Poetry · 1894
Love-Songs of Childhood
Forty-odd poems for and about small children, by the newspaperman who invented the modern American nursery poem. "The Duel" sets the gingham dog against the calico cat and disposes of both; "Jest 'Fore Christmas" is the confession of a boy going temporarily straight for commercial reasons; "Seein' Things" describes what comes out of the dark at bedtime; "The Dinkey Bird", "The Fly-Away Horse", "The Shut-Eye Train" and "The Rock-a-By Lady" take the same child off to sleep. Several — "The Dead Babe", "Inscription for My Little Son's Silver Plate" — are not comic at all, and Field, who lost children of his own, put them in deliberately.
Eugene Field wrote a daily column for the Chicago Daily News and published Love-Songs of Childhood in 1894, the year before his death at forty-five.
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Contents
- Dedication
- Note
- The Rock-a-by Lady
- Garden and Cradle
- The Night Wind
- Kissing Time
- Jest ‘Fore Christmas
- Beard and Baby
- The Dinkey Bird
- The Drum
- The Dead Babe
- The Happy Household
- So, So, Rock-a-by So!
- The Song of Luddy-Dud
- The Duel
- Good-Children Street
- The Delectable Ballad of the Waller Lot
- The Stork
- The Bottle Tree
- Googly-Goo
- The Bench-Legged Fyce
- Little Miss Brag
- The Humming Top
- Lady Button-Eyes
- The Ride to Bumpville
- The Brook
- Picnic-Time
- Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks
- The Shut-Eye Train
- Little-Oh Dear
- The Fly-Away Horse
- Swing High and Swing Low
- When I Was a Boy
- At Play
- A Valentine
- Little All-Aloney
- Seein’ Things
- The Cunnin’ Little Thing
- The Doll’s Wooing
- Inscription for My Little Son’s Silver Plate
- Fisherman Jim’s Kids
- “Fiddle-Dee-Dee”
- Over the Hills and Far Away
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