StoryTitle("caps", "Krinken") ?>
is the dearest of poems.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Krinken was a little child.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was summer when he smiled!\"", "") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>
Eugene Field, above all other poets, paid the finest tribute to
children. This poet only, could make the whole ocean warm because a
child's heart was there to warm it.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Krinken was a little child,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was summer when he smiled.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oft the hoary sea and grim", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Stretched its white arms out to him,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Calling, \"Sun-child, come to me;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let me warm my heart with thee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the child heard not the sea", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Calling, yearning evermore", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the summer on the shore.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Krinken on the beach one day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Saw a maiden Nis at play;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "On the pebbly beach she played", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In the summer Krinken made.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair, and very fair, was she,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just a little child was he.", "") ?>
PagePoem(163, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Krinken,\" said the maiden Nis,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Let me have a little kiss,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just a kiss, and go with me", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To the summer-lands that be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down within the silver sea.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Krinken was a little child—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the maiden Nis beguiled,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Hand in hand with her went he", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And 'twas summer in the sea.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the hoary sea and grim", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To its bosom folded him—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Clasped and kissed the little form,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the ocean's heart was warm.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Now the sea calls out no more;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It is winter on the shore,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Winter where that little child", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Made sweet summer when he smiled;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Though 'tis summer on the sea", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Where with maiden Nis went he,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It is winter on the shore,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Winter, winter evermore.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Of the summer on the deep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come sweet visions in my sleep;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His fair face lifts from the sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His dear voice calls out to me,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "These my dreams of summer be.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Krinken was a little child,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "By the maiden Nis beguiled;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Oft the hoary sea and grim", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Reached its longing arms to him,", "") ?>
PagePoem(164, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Crying, \"Sim-child, come to me;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Let me warm my heart with thee!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But the sea calls out no more;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It is winter on the shore,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Winter, cold and dark and wild.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Krinken was a little child,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was summer when he smiled;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Down he went into the sea,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the winter bides with me,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Just a little child was he.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Eugene Field.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>