Eugene Field

His shirt is black, jeans are black, and shaggy black hair falls into his eyes. And when Gavin looks up at Delilah, the dark eyes shadowed with bluish circles seem to flicker to life. He lives in that house, the one at the edge of town. Spooky and maybe haunted. Something worse than haunted. And Gavin is trapped by its secrets. Delilah and Gavin can t resist each other. But staying together will exact a price beyond their imagining.

I have my great grandfather's copy from 1900... It is a collection of mostly single paragraph short stories of everyday life's occurrences using sardonic humor.... It is cleverly illustrated by cartoonist F. Opper (Frederick Burr Opper).... Today, those who are weak of heart and humor may be horrified .... Many invite little children and adults to do the rude or the unthinkable though it is interesting to read the language, syntax, and use of capital letters as was the style then.....

A collection of three of Field's story-poems, including "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," "The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat," and "The Sugar Plum Tree."

LONGFELLOW The Day Is Done The Children's Hour Paul Revere's Ride SWINBURNE AChild's Laughter BLAKE The Lamb The Tiger STEVENSON Happy Thought Whole Duty of Children Good and Bad Children My Shadow The Land of Counterpane EMERSON Concord Hymn WHITMAN OCaptain! My captain! There Was a Child Went Forth WHITTIER Barbara Frietchie HOLMES The Deacon's Masterpiece FIELD Little Boy Blue LEAR The Owl and the Pussy-Cat COLERIDGE CARROLL Jabberwocky KIPLING The Law of the Jungle The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Ninety-four of the author's poems for and about children.

Treasury of 39 works by influential English Romantic poet: "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," the "Lucy" poems, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "Intimations of Immortality," many more.