The Little Boy Found a comparison of several of the extant copies of the poem, their print date, their order in that particular binding of the book of poems, and their holding institution: 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
Little Boy Blue (poem) Little Boy Blue") to its present form. The poem was republished by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1889 in Field's "The Little Book of Western Verse". In 1976, Frank Jacobs wrote a parody of the poem for "Mad" magazine. An 1891 song setting of Field's poem by composer Ethelbert Nevin (1862–1901) was made popular by tenor John McCormack. A spoken-word recording (with accompaniment) was also made by Wink Martindale and it appears on his "Deck of Cards" album. <poem> The little toy dog is covered with dust, Time was when the little toy dog was new, And that was the time