 | Adelaide Patterson - Chants - 1922 - 180 pages
...is covered with dust, But sturdy and stanch he stands; And the little toy soldier is red with rust, And his musket moulds in his hands. Time was when...he kissed them and put them there. —Eugene Field. THE NINETY AND NINE There were ninety and nine that safely lay In the shelter of the fold; But one... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - American poetry - 1922 - 424 pages
...you go till I come," he said, "And don't you make any noise!" So, toddling off to his trundle bed, He dreamt of the pretty toys; And, as he was dreaming,...Boy Blue, Since he kissed them and put them there. 1 Reprinted from The Complete Works of Eugene Field by permission of Charles Scribner's Sons, holders... | |
 | Adelaide Patterson - Chants - 1922 - 182 pages
...them and put them there. "Now, don't you go till I come," he said, "And don't you make any noise!" And, as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our...kissed them and put them there. — Eugene Field. THE NINETY AND NINE There were ninety and nine that safely lay In the shelter of the fold; But one... | |
 | Rose Buhlig - Commercial correspondence - 1922 - 496 pages
...the spirit of the conception and begin to interpret it with truth. For example, in preparing to read: And they wonder, as waiting the long years through,...little chair, What has become of our Little Boy Blue if the reader will practice such sentences as, I wonder where he's gone? I wonder what's become of... | |
 | Clifford Smyth - American literature - 1925 - 850 pages
...face. And they wonder, as waiting these long years through In the dust of that little chair, What lias become of our Little Boy Blue Since he kissed them and put them there. The Queen's Dolls' House is not now inhabited — at least, the illustrations in the two lordly tomes... | |
 | Alban Bertram De Mille - American poetry - 1923 - 552 pages
...little toy friends are true! Ay, faithful to Little Boy Blue they stand, Each in the same old place, 20 Awaiting the touch of a little hand, The smile of...little chair, What has become of our Little Boy Blue, 25 Since he kissed them and put them there. EDWIN MARKHAM !THE MAN WITH THE HOE Written after seeing... | |
 | Marie Bernadette King - American poetry - 1923 - 544 pages
...is covered with dust, But sturdy and staunch he stands; And the little toy soldier is red with rust, And his musket moulds in his hands. Time was when...Since he kissed them and put them there. EUGENE FIELD THE SHADOW PEOPLE OLD lame Bridget doesn't hear Fairy music in the grass When the gloaming's on the... | |
 | Charles Henry Dennis - 1924 - 364 pages
...Awaiting the touch of a little hand, And the smile of a little face. And they wonder, as waiting these long years through, In the dust of that little chair,...Boy Blue Since he kissed them and put them there. n One other poem appeared in that first number of America — "St. Michael the Weigher," by James Russell... | |
 | Robert Haven Schauffler - American poetry - 1925 - 490 pages
...is covered with dust, But sturdy and stanch he stands; And the little toy soldier is red with rust, And his musket moulds in his hands. Time was when...Boy Blue, Since he kissed them and put them there. THE TOYS BY COVENTRY PATMORE My little Son, who look'd from thoughtful eyes And moved and spoke in... | |
 | 1901 - 498 pages
...the touch of a little hand, The smile of a little face; And they wonder, as waiting these long yean through, In the dust of that little chair, What has become of our Little Boy Blue HUMBLE CONFESSIONS. BY LOUISA L. GREENE RICHARDS. Brother Wilford Woodruff, Jr., who has been a faithful... | |
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And don't you make any noise!" So, toddling off to his trundle-bed, He dreamt of the pretty toys; And, as he was dreaming, an angel song Awakened our Little Boy Blue — Oh ! the years are many, the years are long, But the little toy friends are true... 
