Eugene Field
Who is Eugene Field
Eugene Field Sr. (September 2, 1850 – November 4, 1895) was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. He was known as the "poet of childhood".
Early life and education
Field was born in St. Louis, Missouri at 634 S. Broadway where today his boyhood home is open to the public as The Eugene Field House and St. Louis Toy Museum. After the death of his mother in 1856, he was raised by an aunt, Mary Field French, in Amherst, Massachusetts.Field's father, attorney Roswell Martin Field, was famous for his representation of Dred Scott, the slave who sued for his freedom. Field filed the complaint in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case (sometimes referred to as "the lawsuit that started the Civil War") on behalf of Scott in the federal cour...
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Eugene Field Poems
- To Quintius Hirpinus
To Scythian and Cantabrian plots,
Pay them no heed, O Quintius!
So long as we
From care are free,
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- The "happy Isles" Of Horace
Oh, come with me to the Happy Isles
In the golden haze off yonder,
Where the song of the sun-kissed breeze beguiles,
And the ocean loves to wander.
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- To Phyllis I
Come, Phyllis, I've a cask of wine
That fairly reeks with precious juices,
And in your tresses you shall twine
The loveliest flowers this vale produces.
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- Uhland's "chapel"
Yonder stands the hillside chapel
Mid the evergreens and rocks,
All day long it hears the song
Of the shepherd to his flocks.
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- Horace I, 31
As forth he pours the new made wine,
What blessing asks the lyric poet--
What boon implores in this fair shrine
Of one full likely to bestow it?
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Comments about Eugene Field
- County_r: due to poor field conditions, today's baseball game vs eugene has been postponed.
next action: senior night vs laquey thursday, march 30 at 5:00 pm at the tuscumbia ballpark.
- Eugene_toews: i look forward to your campaign to make the equal representation of women your priority. in fact perhaps as a gesture of goodwill you can give up your show to a female broadcaster as it appears women are underrepresented in your field of work.
- Briverxc: huge shoutout to 8th grader connor rhein who qualified for the 2023 nike outdoor national championships in june at historic hayward field in eugene, oregon.
- Goldencompasses: for those who have not seen it yet, in this video
- Systemaparadoxa: a renowned physicist enlists the aid of a bounty hunter to help him capture proof of a new field of science that exists beyond the grave. “the final experiment of eugene appleton” by allan burd
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