The Little Boy Found The Little Boy Found "The Little Boy Found" is a poem by William Blake first published in the collection "Songs of Innocence" in 1789. "Songs of Innocence" was printed using illuminated printing, a style Blake created. By integrating the images with the poems the reader was better able to understand the meaning behind each of Blake's poems. "The Little Boy Found" is a sequel to "The Little Boy Lost". The two poems are written as simple songs, similar to nursery rhymes. <poem> The little boy lost in the lonely fen, Led by the wand'ring light, Began to cry, but God
Little Boy Blue (poem) Little Boy Blue (poem) "Little Boy Blue" is a poem by Eugene Field about the death of a child, a sentimental but beloved theme in 19th-century poetry. Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for the seventh line in the first stanza. The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal "America". Its editor, Slason Thompson, changed the penultimate line ("That they have never seen our