StoryTitle("caps", "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod") ?>
Blynken, and Nod," by Eugene Field (1850-95), pleases children,
who are all by nature sailors and adventurers.
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sailed off in a wooden shoe,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Sailed on a river of crystal light", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Into a sea of dew.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Where are you going, and what do you wish?\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The old moon asked the three.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"We have come to fish for the herring-fish", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That live in this beautiful sea;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nets of silver and gold have we,\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Said Wynken,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Blynken,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "And Nod.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The old moon laughed and sang a song,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As they rocked in the wooden shoe;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the wind that sped them all night long", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Ruffled the waves of dew;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The little stars were the herring-fish", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That lived in the beautiful sea.", "") ?>
PagePoem(17, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "\"Now cast your nets wherever you wish,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Never afeard are we!\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So cried the stars to the fishermen three,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Wynken,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Blynken,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "And Nod.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "All night long their nets they threw", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To the stars in the twinkling foam,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bringing the fishermen home:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "'Twas all so pretty a sail, it seemed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As if it could not be;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And some folk thought 'twas a dream they'd dreamed", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of sailing that beautiful sea;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "But I shall name you the fishermen three:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Wynken,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Blynken,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "And Nod.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Nod is a little head,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is a wee one's trundle-bed;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So shut your eyes while Mother sings", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of wonderful sights that be,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And you shall see the beautiful things", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As you rock on the misty sea", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three,—", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Wynken,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "Blynken,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "And Nod.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("100", SmallCapsText("Eugene Field.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>