The complete online text of Songs and Other Verse by Eugene Field.

Termed "the first of the columnists," Eugene Field is best known today as the poet of children. However, his poems and stories originally appeared in print in columns written for newspapers in St. Louis, St. Joseph, and Kansas City, Missouri; Denver; and...

Highly regarded by his contemporaries as a poet, journalist, humorist, and raconteur, Eugene Field also built a reputation for himself as a bibliophile--although he did not accumulate a notable collection of books or establish a great library. His signif...

Eugene Field was a popular humorist and newspaperman often called the "Poet of Childhood." Born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Roswell M. and Frances Reed Field, both of New England ancestry, Field claimed two birthdates--2 and 3 September 1850--in later yea...

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