Pat,
I was looking for Eugene Field’s poem about the Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat, ["The Duel"].
I was extremely pleased to see it on your website. The photos of the quilts were just precious.
I am a beginning quilter (Age 72) and have made a few for family members. I just wish one of my grandchildren or great G.C. were familiar with this, and other poems. i.e. “Little Boy Blue,” and one by Charles Kingsley, “The Lost Doll.” My mother read these poems over and over to me when I was a child. I can still see me sitting by her side as she read them. I am adding your address to my contacts, if that is OK with you.
Ruth Forister
We appreciate this reader’s note and hope she visits us often on the web. Thanks, Ruth!
Other poems:
Little Boy Blue
Little Boy Blue,
Come blow your horn,
The sheep’s in the meadow,
The cow’s in the corn;
Where is that boy
Who looks after the sheep?
Under the haystack
Fast asleep.
Will you wake him?
Oh no, not I,
For if I do
He will surely cry.
For more information about this nursery rhyme, please visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy_Blue
The other poem, “The Lost Doll,” by Charles Kingsley, can be read on a poetry archives site which states that the poem was used for reading and memorizing by 3rd & 4th grade students in 1920.
Patricia Cummings
Quilter’s Muse Publications
