“ A Little Book of Profitable Tales appeared in Chicago in 1889 and in New York the next year; but Field’s place in later American literature chiefly depends upon his poems of Christmas-time and childhood (of which “Little Boy Blue” and “A Dutch Lullaby” are most widely known) , because of their union of obvious sentiment with fluent lyrical form. His principal collections of poems are: A Little Book of Western Verse (1889) ; A Second Book of Verse (1892) ; With Trumpet and Drum (1892) ; and Love Songs of Childhood (1894) . Field died at Chicago on the 4th of November 1895. ”