The Old-Home Folks (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Such was the Child-World of the long-ago--The little world these children used to know:--Johnty, the oldest, and the best, perhaps,Of ...
Such was the Child-World of the long-ago--The little world these children used to know:--Johnty, the oldest, and the best, perhaps,Of ...
The moist and quiet morn was scarcely breaking.When Ariadne in her bower was waking;Her eyelids still were closing, and she ...
As I near my lonely cottage, At the close of weary day, There's a little bit of gladness Comes to meet me on ...
I was going from Hamburg to London in a small steamer. We were twopassengers; I and a little female monkey, ...
He lies on the grass, looking up to the sky;Blue butterflies pass like a breath or a sigh,The shy little ...
A book of many thoughts in mingled measures;Songs of my Heart, attuned through many a yearFrom time to time a ...
The winds have talked with him confidingly;The trees have whispered to him; and the nightHath held him gently as a ...
'TIS done--the night has pass'd away; And, basking in the sunny day, The laughing fountain's waters bear No record of ...
Down the hillside tripping brightly, O'er the pebbles tinkling lightly,'Mid the meadows rippling merrily, the mountain- ...
It was the autumn of the year;The strawberry-leaves were red and sere;October's airs were fresh and chill,When, pausing on the ...
"NO, not in the halls of the noble and proud, Where Fashion assembles her glittering crowd, Where all is in ...
There are more ways to heaven than mortals know; One reaches it through solemn praise and prayer, Another through the ...
Out on the heart that has not faith enough To recognize another's constancy; That vaunts its arrogant fidelity, And scorns ...
God, God! With a child's voice I cry, Weak, sad, confidingly- God, God! Thou knowest, eyelids, raised not always up ...
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