Up And Down Old Brandywine (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Up and down old Brandywine, In the days 'at's past and gone--With a dad-burn hook-and line And a saplin' pole--swawn! I've had more ...
Up and down old Brandywine, In the days 'at's past and gone--With a dad-burn hook-and line And a saplin' pole--swawn! I've had more ...
Wunst, 'way West in Illinoise, Wuz two Bears an' their two boys: An' the two boys' names, you know, Wuz--like _ours_ is,--Jim an' ...
Wen I git up in de mo'nin' an' de clouds is big an' black, Dey's a kin' o' wa'nin' shivah goes ...
Noon-time and June-time, down around the river! Have to furse with 'Lizey Ann--but lawzy! I fergive her! Drives me off the place, ...
On the banks o' Deer Crick! There's the place fer me!-- Worter slidin' past ye jes as clair as it kin be:-- See ...
The fog was so thick yer could cut it 'Thout reachin' a foot over-side,The dory she'd nose up ter butt it, And ...
OCH, what was it got me at all that time To promise I'd marry a Rachray man?An' now he'll not listen ...
Sun like a furnace hung up overhead,Burnin' and blazin' and blisterin' red;Sky like an ocean, so blue and so deep,One ...
"Goneys an' gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea They ain't no birds, not really", said Billy the Dane."Not ...
Whin yoah corns an' bunions achin',An' yoah body's full o' pain,Yo' can res' right shure an' sertin',Dat we's goin' 'o ...
STANDIN' at de winder,Feelin' kind o' glum,Listenin' to de raindropsPlay de kettle drum,Lookin' crost de meddersSwimmin' lak a sea;Lawd 'a' ...
I.Faith, there's a hantle queer complaintsTo cheenge puir sinners into saints,An' mony divers ways o' deein'That doctors hae a chance ...
To MR. E. H. SHARP. Blue bird an' de killdee Am er flittin' by! Spring time chillun! An' de fishin' ...
GRANDFATHERT' watter is blue i' t' offin', An' blue is t' sky aboon;Swallows are settin' sou'ard, An' wanin' ...
The miller by the shore am I, A man o' despert sense;I've fotty different soorts o' ways O' ...
A feller isn't thinkin' mean, Out fishin';His thoughts are mostly good an' clean, Out fishin'.He doesn't knock his ...
Seemed like I couldn't stand it any more, The factory whistles blowin' day by day,An' men an' children hurryin' by ...
WHEN we wuz kids together, an' we didn't have a care,In the lazy days of summer, when our feet wuz ...
BLUE skies mighty temptin', an' the sunbeams coaxin', too,An' my wo'k is gettin' harder ebery day;Ain't a-takin' any int'rest in ...
SEA, SEA RIDER The man who owned the bookstore was not magic. He was not a three-legged crow on the ...
"Goneys an' gullies an' all o' the birds o' the sea They ain't no birds, not really", said Billy the ...
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