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Eugene Field's Poetry, by first line

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  • Swing high and swing low
    Swing high and swing low
    While the breezes they blow -
    22 lines
  • Picnic-time
    It's June ag'in, an' in my soul I feel the fillin' joy
    That's sure to come this time o' year to every little boy;
    24 lines
  • A Paraphrase
    Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name;
    Thy Kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth, in Heaven the same;
    7 lines, 1 comment
  • Pan liveth
    They told me once that Pan was dead,
    And so, in sooth, I thought him;
    48 lines
  • Winfreda
    (A BALLAD IN THE ANGLO-SAXON TONGUE)
    When to the dreary greenwood gloam
    50 lines
  • Sister's cake
    I'd not complain of Sister Jane, for she was good and kind,
    Combining with rare comeliness distinctive gifts of mind;
    54 lines
  • Ed
    Ed was a man that played for keeps, 'nd when he tuk the notion,
    You cudn't stop him any more'n a dam 'ud stop the ocean;
    18 lines
  • Hymn
    (FROM THE GERMAN OF MARTIN LUTHER)
    O heart of mine! lift up thine eyes
    17 lines
  • Star of the east
    Star of the East, that long ago
    Brought wise men on their way
    18 lines
  • In New Orleans
    'Twas in the Crescent City not long ago befell
    The tear-compelling incident I now propose to tell;
    42 lines
  • My playmates
    The wind comes whispering to me of the country green and cool--
    Of redwing blackbirds chattering beside a reedy pool;
    30 lines
  • Stoves and sunshine
    Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea--
    The land of stoves and sunshine is good enough for me!
    42 lines
  • Mysterious doings
    As once I rambled in the woods
    I chanced to spy amid the brake
    24 lines
  • Prof. vere de blaw
    Achievin' sech distinction with his moddel tabble dote
    Ez to make his Red Hoss Mountain restauraw a place uv note,
    110 lines
  • Yvytot
    _Where wail the waters in their flaw
    A spectre wanders to and fro,
    120 lines
  • Seein' things
    I ain't afeard uv snakes, or toads, or bugs, or worms, or mice,
    An' things 'at girls are skeered uv I think are awful nice!
    30 lines
  • Fiddle-Dee-Dee
    There once was a bird that lived up in a tree,
    And all he could whistle was \
    31 lines, 1 comment
  • Over the hills and far away
    Over the hills and far away,
    A little boy steals from his morning play
    27 lines
  • Suppose
    Suppose, my dear, that you were I
    And by your side your sweetheart sate;
    18 lines
  • Jessie
    When I remark her golden hair
    Swoon on her glorious shoulders,
    32 lines
  • Uhland's
    There were three cavaliers that went over the Rhine,
    And gayly they called to the hostess for wine.
    20 lines, 1 comment
  • Norse lullaby
    The sky is dark and the hills are white
    As the storm-king speeds from the north to-night,
    21 lines
  • The Twenty-Third Psalm
    My Shepherd is the Lord my God,--
    There is no want I know;
    20 lines
  • Good-Bye--God Bless You!
    I like the Anglo-Saxon speech
    With its direct revealings;
    48 lines
  • The Conversazzhony
    What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know,
    For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago;
    120 lines
  • Our biggest fish
    When in the halcyon days of old, I was a little tyke,
    I used to fish in pickerel ponds for minnows and the like;
    37 lines
  • Pittypat and Tippytoe
    All day long they come and go--
    Pittypat and Tippytoe;
    48 lines
  • Chicago Weather
    To-day, fair Thisbe, winsome girl!
    Strays o'er the meads where daisies blow,
    16 lines
  • Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks
    Shuffle-Shoon and Amber-Locks
    Sit together, building blocks;
    32 lines
  • At Cheyenne
    Young Lochinvar came in from the West,
    With fringe on his trouser
    19 lines
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