Eugene Field
Eugene Field
Eugene Field, Sr.was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He was known as the "poet of childhood."...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth2 September 1850
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
american-poet played though
He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.
asking bill mistake tax time
I'm being assessed for it. I get nothing, ... I was told by the time I got my tax bill I would get water. My mistake was in not asking them what year.
ideas birth pendulums
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
wings joy heaven
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it
men smell smoking
What smells so? Has somebody been burning a Rag, or is there a Dead Mule in the Back yard? No, the Man is Smoking a Five-Cent Cigar.
sea fishing rivers
I never lost a little fish - Yes, I'm free to say. It always was the biggest fish I caught, that got away.
pie apples cheese
The best of all physiciansIs apple pie and cheese!
thinking years games
Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck-- It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind, an' now proclaim That luck's a kind uv science--same as any other game.
girl baby pairs
Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
christmas girl boys
I'd like a stocking made for a giant, And a meeting house full of toys, Then I'd go out in a happy hunt For the poor little girls and boys; Up the street and down the street, And across and over the town, I'd search and find them everyone, Before the sun went down.
jail congress statesmen
Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing, after all.
kings fear play
Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.
wine bird bottles
When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth: "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"
sarcastic baby mean
He is so mean, he won't let his little baby have more than one measle at a time.