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
book passion men
But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!
book temptation
Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
inspirational book temptation
Let my temptation be a book.
book reading practice
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
book air perfume
Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.
cheer book years
Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.
book appreciated book-lover
No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.
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.