The Little Boy Found two stanzas. In the first stanza the little boy is lost in a bog, and afraid when God comes to him. In the second stanza God leads him back to his mother, who had been looking for him. "The Little Boy Found" presents a pastoral setting. One of the major themes in "The Little Boy Found" is the presence of God in people's lives. This is explicitly said in line 4. God is a common topic in Blake's poetry, especially in "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience". In "The Little Boy Found" being 'lost' does not always refer to
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