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 ...
BENT like a laboring oar, that toils in the surf of the ocean,Bent, but not broken, by age was the ...
ISONG With a hey! and a hi! and a hey-ho rhyme! O the shepherd lad He is ne'er so glad As when he pipes, ...
I sometimes take you in my dreams to a far-off land I used to know,Back in the ages long ago; ...
Standing on tiptoe, head back, eyes and armUpraised, Kate groped to reach the higher shelf.Her sleeve slid up like darkness ...
FROM "THE TRIUMPH OF MUSIC." ... Fresh from bathing in orient fountains, In wells of rock water and snow, Comes the Dawn with ...
Dim dreams it hath of singing ways,Of far-off woodland water-heads,And shining ends of April daysAmongst the yellow runnel-beds.Stoop closer to ...
_Piped to the Spirit of John Keats._ I. Would that my lips might pour out in thy praise A fitting melody--an air sublime,-- A ...
IT LIES amongst the sleeping stones, Far down the hidden mountain glade;And past its brink the torrent moans For ever in a ...
OH come, my pretty love ! and weWill climb the dewy hill together;An acorn shall our goblet be,A rose our ...
Seek ye the fairest lily of the field, The fairest lotus that in lakelet lies,The fairest rose that ever morn revealed,And ...
ACT III. A cell in the Wartburg Monastery. Enter PRIOR PEPPERCORN with the casket.PRIOR.So! Glittering shell where doubtless shines concealedAn ...
There's a garden that slopes to the south and the sun, A garden in Kerry I know, Where the ...
517He parts Himself-like Leaves-And then-He closes up-Then stands upon the BonnetOf Any Buttercup-And then He runs againstAnd oversets a Rose-And ...
He parts Himself -- like Leaves -- And then -- He closes up -- Then stands upon the Bonnet Of ...
Floss won't save you from an Abyss But a Rope will -- Notwithstanding a Rope for a Souvenir Is not ...
You've heard of Julot the apache, and Gigolette, his mome. . . . Montmartre was their hunting-ground, but Belville was ...
Miss Don't-do-this and Don't-do-that Has such a sunny smile You cannot help but chuckle at Her cuteness and her guile. ...
First having read the book of myths, and loaded the camera, and checked the edge of the knife-blade, I put ...
WHEN AURORA'S soft blushes o'erspread the blue hill, And the mist dies away at the glances of morn; When the ...
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