With Trumpet and Drum

By Eugene Field

Here, Eugene Field, an American writer best known for being the "poet of childhood", offers us a glimpse of his talents in this collection of poems. Featuring the whimsical imaginations of children, Field wrote titles such as The Sugar-Plum Tree, The Naughty Doll, and Pittypat and Tippytoe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Nov 5, 2021
• ISBN: 4066338080578

Eugene Field

Eugene Field (1850-1895) was a noted author best known for his fairy tales and nursery rhymes. Many of his children's poems were illustrated by Maxfield Parrish. Also an American journalist and humorous essay writer, Field was lost to the world at the young age of 45 when he died of a heart attack.

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Eugene Field

With Trumpet and Drum

Published by Good Press, 2022

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WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM

THE SUGAR-PLUM TREE

KRINKEN

THE NAUGHTY DOLL

NIGHTFALL IN DORDRECHT

INTRY-MINTRY

PITTYPAT AND TIPPYTOE

BALOW, MY BONNIE

THE HAWTHORNE CHILDREN

LITTLE BLUE PIGEON

THE LYTTEL BOY

TEENY-WEENY

NELLIE

NORSE LULLABY

GRANDMA’S PRAYER

SOME TIME

THE FIRE-HANGBIRD’S NEST

BUTTERCUP, POPPY, FORGET-ME-NOT

WYNKEN, BLYNKEN, AND NOD

GOLD AND LOVE FOR DEARIE

THE PEACE OF CHRISTMAS-TIME

TO A LITTLE BROOK

CROODLIN’ DOO

LITTLE MISTRESS SANS-MERCI

LONG AGO

IN THE FIRELIGHT

COBBLER AND STORK

LOLLYBY, LOLLY, LOLLYBY

LIZZIE AND THE BABY

AT THE DOOR

HUGO’S CHILD AT PLAY

HI-SPY

LITTLE BOY BLUE

FATHER’S LETTER

JEWISH LULLABY

OUR WHIPPINGS

THE ARMENIAN MOTHER

HEIGHO, MY DEARIE

TO A USURPER

THE BELL-FLOWER TREE

FAIRY AND CHILD

THE GRANDSIRE

HUSHABY, SWEET MY OWN

CHILD AND MOTHER

MEDIEVAL EVENTIDE SONG

ARMENIAN LULLABY

CHRISTMAS TREASURES

OH, LITTLE CHILD

GANDERFEATHER’S GIFT

BAMBINO

LITTLE HOMER’S SLATE

This volume is made up of verse compiled from my Little Book of Western Verse, my Second Book of Verse, and the files of the Chicago Daily News, the Youth’s Companion, and the Ladies’ Home Journal.

E.F.

Chicago

, October 25, 1892.

WITH TRUMPET AND DRUM

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With big tin trumpet and little red drum,

Marching like soldiers, the children come!

It’s this way and that way they circle and file—

My! but that music of theirs is fine!

This way and that way, and after a while

They march straight into this heart of mine!

A sturdy old heart, but it has to succumb

To the blare of that trumpet and beat of that drum!

Come on, little people, from cot and from hall—

This heart it hath welcome and room for you all!

It will sing you its songs and warm you with love,

As your dear little arms with my arms intertwine;

It will rock you away to the dreamland above—

Oh, a jolly old heart is this old heart of mine,

And jollier still is it bound to become

When you blow that big trumpet and beat that red drum!

So come; though I see not his dear little face

And hear not his voice in this jubilant place,

I know he were happy to bid me enshrine

His memory deep in my heart with your play—

Ah me! but a love that is sweeter than mine

Holdeth my boy in its keeping to-day!

And my heart it is lonely—so, little folk, come,

March in and make merry with trumpet and drum!

EUGENE FIELD.

Chicago, September 13, 1892.