Dedicated to the cousin who raised him after his mother’s death, Field’s collection mixes the tender and the comic. Here are Little Boy Blue, dialect ballads of Western mining camps such as Casey’s Table D’Hôte, mock-Elizabethan lyrics like Madge: Ye Hoyden, lullabies, and his verses on the joys of book collecting.
Warm, funny verse from the Chicago newspaperman known as the poet of childhood. Download the free EPUB.