Field Flowers


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THIS BOOK IS A CERTIFICATE THAT THERE HAS BEEN SUBSCRIBED TO THE EUGENE FIELD MONUMENT SOUVENIR FUND THE SUM OF ONE DOLLAR AND THE SAME IS ACCREDITED TO

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Ybut if again that angel brain
And golden-head came back to me
To bear me to Eternity,
My watching will not be in vain.

The first verse I ever wrote.

1878
Eugene Field


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Field Flowers

A small bunch of the most fragrant of

blossoms gathered from the broad acres of

Eugene Field's farm of love.


Published under the auspices of Mrs. Eugene Field with
the approval of the
Monument Committee
for the purpose of creating a Fund, the proceeds of which
will be equally divided between the family of the late..
Eugene Field and the fund for the building of a..
monument to the memory of the beloved poet of childhood.


Monument Fund Committee

Mrs Eugene
Joseph Medil
Wm Penn Nixon
Victor F. Lawson
 H.H. (illegible text)
J.F.W. Seymour
(illegible text) Thompson
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THE PUBLICATION OF THIS BOOK IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE KIND CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE ARTISTS: BY THE GENEROUS ADVERTISING OF THE NEWSPAPERS AND MAGAZINES, AND BY THE HELP OF THE INDIVIDUALS WHOSE LIBERAL SUBSCRIPTIONS THROUGH THIS MEDIUM HAVE LARGELY INCREASED THE MONUMENT SOUVENIR FUND.

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Come, buy these flowers of bloom perennial and let us build a monument to Eugene Field.

Chapters (not listed in original)

  • The Dream Ship
  • Little Mistress Sans-Merci
  • Cornish Lullaby
  • Over the Hills and Far Away
  • Jes' 'Fore Christmas
  • Be My Sweeheart
  • A Little Bit of a Woman
  • Barbara
  • Some Time
  • Rock-a-by Lady
  • Seein' Things
  • The Tea Gown
  • When I was a Boy
  • Jewish Lullaby
  • The Brook


This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.

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