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Eugene Field [1850-1895] USA
Ranked #113 in the top 380 poets
Votes 87%: 258 up, 39 down

Children's poetry and humorous essays. "Poet of childhood." Light-hearted, humorous, gossipy.

Eugene Field was a poet that gained a reputation for being known as "The Children`s Poet", since many (though by no means all) of his poems centered on themes related to the world of children.It all started September 2, 1850, at 634 South Broadway in Saint Louis. That`s where and when Eugene Field was born. He had one brother named Roswell, who was one year younger than he, and a sister who died soon after her birth. He and his brother were very close, but very different. Eugene took after their mother, Francis, while Roswell took after their father. Eugene was afraid of the dark while his brother wasn`t afraid of anything. Eugene hated studying while Roswell loved it. When the boys were six and five, their mother died. Mr. Field sent them to live with their cousin, Mary French, in Massachusetts until he could take care of them. While living on their cousin`s farm, Eugene wrote his first poem . He was nine then, and the poem was about their cousin`s dog, Fido. 

At the age of fifteen, Eugene was shipped off to a small private school in Massachusetts. There were only five boys in the school, and Eugene loved leading the boys in tricks against the master of the school.

Eugene went on to William`s College in Massachusetts. Unfortunately, his father died when he was nineteen and he dropped out after eight months. Next he went to Knox College but dropped out of college after a year. Then he went to the University of Missouri, where his brother was also attending. While there, he met Julia Comstock, who was fourteen. When Julia turned sixteen, she and Eugene married. They had eight children. Two died as babies, another died as a little boy. The remaining five grew up and had long lives.

While married, Eugene had many jobs. He worked for many newspapers until the Chicago Daily News offered him a job. He wrote a humorous column called "Sharps and Flats". In 1895, Eugene Field died. 

Some of Field`s most famous children`s poems are "Wynken, Blynken,and Nod"; "The Duel"; and "Little Boy Blue".

New American Poetry, Children



WorkLangRating
Wynken, Blynken, And Nod
eng
24
Little Boy Blue
eng
20
Christmas Eve 1914
eng
15
Some Time
eng
5
The Night Wind
eng
4
Jest `Fore Christmas
eng
3
The Shut-Eye Train
eng
3
"Booh!"
eng
2
Beard And Baby
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2
"Lollyby, Lolly, Lollyby"
eng
1
A Drinking Song
eng
1
A Paraphrase
eng
1
A Valentine
eng
1
At The Door
eng
1
Fiddle-Dee-D
eng
1
Garden And Cradle
eng
1
Swing high and swing low
eng
1
The Cunnin` Little Thing
eng
1
The Fly-Away Horse
eng
1
The Humming Top
eng
1
The Jaffa And Jerusalem Railway
eng
1
The Rock-A-By Lady
eng
1
Uhland`s
eng
1
With Trumpet And Drum
eng
1
With Two Spoons For Two Spoons
eng
1
"Guess"
eng
0
"The Old Homestead"
eng
0
A Chaucerian Paraphrase Of Horace
eng
0
A Democratic Hymn
eng
0
A Dream Of Sunshine
eng
0
A Fickle Woman
eng
0
A Heine Love Song
eng
0
A Lullaby
eng
0
A Paraphrase Of Heine
eng
0
A Paraphrase, By Chaucer
eng
0
A Paraphrase, By Dr. I.W.
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0
A Paraphrase, Circa 1715
eng
0
A Piteous Plaint
eng
0
A Proper Trewe Idyll Of Camelot
eng
0
A Rhine-Land Drinking Song
eng
0
A Roman Winter-Piece
eng
0
A Spring Poem From Bion
eng
0
A Tardy Apology
eng
0
A Valentine To My Wife
eng
0
Abu Midjan
eng
0
After Reading Trollope`s History Of Florence
eng
0
Ailsie, My Bairn
eng
0
Alaskan Balladry
eng
0
Alaskan Balladry, No.1
eng
0
An Autumn Treasure-Trove
eng
0
An Eclogue From Virgil
eng
0
An Invitation To Maecenas
eng
0
An Ode To Fortune
eng
0
Apple-Pie And Cheese
eng
0
Armenian Folk-Song--The Partridge
eng
0
Armenian Folk-Song--The Stork
eng
0
At Cheyenne
eng
0
At Play
eng
0
Ballad Of Women I Love
eng
0
Be My Sweetheart
eng
0
Ben Apfelgarten
eng
0
Beranger`s "Broken Fiddle"
eng
0
Beranger`s "To My Old Coat"
eng
0
Beranger`s My Last Song Perhaps (January 1814)
eng
0
Bethlehem-Town
eng
0
Bion’s Song Of Eros
eng
0
Boccaccio
eng
0
Casey`s Table D`Hote
eng
0
Chicago Weather
eng
0
Child And Mother
eng
0
Christmas Eve
eng
0
Christmas Hymn
eng
0
Christmas Morning
eng
0
Christmas Treasures
eng
0
Chrystmasse Of Olde
eng
0
Clare Market
eng
0
Consistency
eng
0
Contentment
eng
0
Cornish Lullaby
eng
0
De Amicitiis
eng
0
Dead Roses
eng
0
Dear Old London
eng
0
Der Mann Im Keller
eng
0
Dibdin`s Ghost
eng
0
Doctor Rabelais
eng
0
Dr. Sam
eng
0
Echoes from the Sabine Farm
eng
0
Ed
eng
0
Epilogue
eng
0
Extinct Monsters
eng
0
Fame _vs._ Riches
eng
0
Fisherman Jim`s Kids
eng
0
Francois Villon
eng
0
Good-Bye--Go
eng
0
Good-Childre
eng
0
Googly-Goo
eng
0
Grandma’s Prayer
eng
0
Heine`s "Widow Or Daughter?"
eng
0
Hi-Spy
eng
0
Horace And Lydia Reconciled
eng
0
Horace I, 22.
eng
0
Horace I, 31.
eng
0
Horace I, 4.
eng
0
Horace II, 13.
eng
0
Horace II, 3.
eng
0
Horace III. 13
eng
0
Horace To His Lute
eng
0
Horace To Maecenas
eng
0
Horace To Melpomene
eng
0
Horace To Phyllis
eng
0
Horace To Pyrrha
eng
0
Horatian Lyrics Odes I, 11.
eng
0
Horatian Lyrics Odes I, 23.
eng
0
How Salty Win Out
eng
0
Hugo`s "Flower To Butterfly"
eng
0
Hugo`s "Pool In The Forest"
eng
0
Human Nature
eng
0
Hymn
eng
0
In Flanders
eng
0
In New Orleans
eng
0
In Praise Of Contentment
eng
0
In Praise Of Truth And Simplicity In Song
eng
0
In The Firelight
eng
0
In The Springtime
eng
0
Inscription For My Little Son`s Silver Plate
eng
0
Intry-Mintry
eng
0
It Is The Printer`s Fault
eng
0
Japanese Lullaby
eng
0
Jennie
eng
0
Jessie
eng
0
John Smith
eng
0
Kissing time
eng
0
Lady Button-Eyes
eng
0
Let Us Have Peace
eng
0
Little All-Aloney
eng
0
Little Croodlin Doo
eng
0
Little Mack
eng
0
Little Miss Brag
eng
0
Little Willie
eng
0
Little-Oh Dear
eng
0
Long Ago
eng
0
Long Meter
eng
0
Love Song--Heine
eng
0
Lullaby; By The Sea
eng
0
Lydia Dick
eng
0
Lyman, Frederick, And Jim
eng
0
Madge: Ye Hoyden
eng
0
Marcus Varro
eng
0
Marthy`s Younkit
eng
0
Mary Smith
eng
0
Mediaeval Eventide Song
eng
0
Mortality
eng
0
Mother And Child
eng
0
Mother And Sphinx
eng
0
Mr. Dana, Of The New York Sun
eng
0
My Garden
eng
0
My playmates
eng
0
Mysterious doings
eng
0
New-Year`s Eve
eng
0
Nightfall in Dordrecht
eng
0
Norse lullaby
eng
0
Of Blessed Memory
eng
0
Old Dutch Love Song
eng
0
Old English Lullaby
eng
0
Old Spanish Song
eng
0
One Day I Got A Missive
eng
0
Orkney Lullaby
eng
0
Our biggest fish
eng
0
Our Lady of the Mine
eng
0
Our Two Opinions
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0
Over the hills and far away
eng
0
Pan liveth
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0
Picnic-time
eng
0
Pike’s Peak
eng
0
Pittypat and Tippytoe
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0
Plaint Of The Missouri `Coon In The Berlin Zoological Gardens
eng
0
Prof. vere de blaw
eng
0
Quitting Again
eng
0
Sailor And Shade
eng
0
Seein` things
eng
0
Shuffle-Shoo
eng
0
Sicilian Lullaby
eng
0
Sister`s cake
eng
0
So, so, rock-a-by so!
eng
0
Soldier, Maiden, and Flower
eng
0
Song
eng
0
Star of the east
eng
0
Stoves and sunshine
eng
0
Summer Heat
eng
0
Suppose
eng
0
The "Happy Isles" of Horace
eng
0
The Ballad Of The Taylor Pup
eng
0
The Bench-Legged
eng
0
The Bibliomaniac`s Bride
eng
0
The Bibliomaniac`s Prayer
eng
0
The Blue And Gray
eng
0
The Bottle And The Bird
eng
0
The Bottle Tree
eng
0
The Bow-Leg Boy
eng
0
The Broken Ring
eng
0
The Brook
eng
0
The Convalescent Gripster
eng
0
The Conversazzho
eng
0
The Dead Babe
eng
0
The Death Of Robin Hood
eng
0
The Delectable Ballad Of The Waller Lot
eng
0
The Dinkey Bird
eng
0
The Discreet Collector
eng
0
The Divine Lullaby
eng
0
The Doll`s Wooing
eng
0
The Dream-Ship
eng
0
The Dreams
eng
0
The Drum
eng
0
The Duel (The Gingham Dog And The Calico Cat)
eng
0
The Dying Year
eng
0
The Fisherman`s Feast
eng
0
The Great Journalist In Spain
eng
0
The Happy Household
eng
0
The Happy Isles
eng
0
The Limitations Of Youth
eng
0
The Little Peach
eng
0
The Lyric Muse
eng
0
The Lyttel Boy
eng
0
The Perpetual Wooing
eng
0
The Peter-Bird
eng
0
The Poet`s Metamorphosis
eng
0
The Preference Declared
eng
0
The Reconciliation
eng
0
The Ride To Bumpville
eng
0
The Singing In God`s Acre
eng
0
The Sleeping Child
eng
0
The Song Of Luddy-Dud
eng
0
The Stoddards
eng
0
The Stork
eng
0
The Straw Parlor
eng
0
The Sugar-Plum Tree
eng
0
The Three Kings Of Cologne
eng
0
The Three Tailors
eng
0
The Tin Bank
eng
0
The Truth About Horace
eng
0
The Twenty-Third
eng
0
The Two Coffins
eng
0
The Two Little Skeezucks
eng
0
The Vision Of The Holy Grail
eng
0
The Wanderer
eng
0
The Wind
eng
0
Thirty-Nine
eng
0
To A Bully
eng
0
To A Jar Of Wine
eng
0
To A Soubrette
eng
0
To A Usurper
eng
0
To Albius Tibullus
eng
0
To Aristius Fuscus
eng
0
To Chloe
eng
0
To Cinna
eng
0
To De Witt Miller
eng
0
To Emma Abbott
eng
0
To His Lute
eng
0
To John J. Knickerbocker, Jr.
eng
0
To Leuconoee
eng
0
To Ligurinus
eng
0
To Lydia
eng
0
To M.L. Gray,
eng
0
To Maecenas
eng
0
To Mary Field French
eng
0
To Mother Venus
eng
0
To Pompeius Varus
eng
0
To Quintus Dellius
eng
0
To Quintus Hirpinus
eng
0
To Robin Goodfellow
eng
0
To The Fountain Of Bandusia
eng
0
To Venus
eng
0
Twin Idols
eng
0
Two Idylls From Bion The Smyrnean
eng
0
Two Valentines
eng
0
Uhland`s "Chapel"
eng
0
Uhland`s White Stag
eng
0
When I Was A Boy
eng
0
When The Poet Came
eng
0
Wine, Women, And Song
eng
0
Winfreda
eng
0
With Brutus In St. Jo
eng
0
Yvytot
eng
0

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