What Chris’mas Fetched The Wigginses (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Wintertime, er Summertime, Of late years I notice I'm, Kindo'-like, more subjec' to What the _weather_ is. Now, you Folks 'at lives in town, I ...
Wintertime, er Summertime, Of late years I notice I'm, Kindo'-like, more subjec' to What the _weather_ is. Now, you Folks 'at lives in town, I ...
Silk from Wu, paulownia from Shu,Strummed in high autumn,In the white sky the frozen cloudsFalling, not floating.Ladies of the River ...
THE SEA-BOUND landsman, looking back to shore,Now learns what land is highest:-not the ringOf hills that erewhile shut out everythingBeyond ...
Of youth bereft as home I came -- alas,With brogue unchanged but sadly altered hair;My children wondered who the stranger ...
Wingletting with the golden scrawlOf its finest sinews,The grasshopper loaded its trailer-bellyWith many coastal herbs and faiths.'Ping, ping, ping!' tra-lah-ed ...
June: 1857 Fourteen, all told, no more, Pack'd close within the door ...
_WHO gave us flowers?Heaven? The white God_?Nonsense!Up out of hell,From Hades;Infernal Dis!_Jesus the god of flowers_------?Not he._Or sun-bright Apollo, him ...
The swallows are back, and I'm tuning my lyre, For today 'tis my duty to singA melodious lay that is ...
Part First Frau Concert-Meister Altgelt shut the door. A storm was rising, heavy gusts of wind Swirled through the trees, ...
Mungojerrie and Rumpelteazer were a very notorious couple of cats. As knockabout clown, quick-change comedians, tight-rope walkers and acrobats They ...
Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron, Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked Over ...
There is an inn, a merry old inn beneath an old grey hill, And there they brew a beer so ...
No, Bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh (The cove be'ind the sandbags ain't a death-or-glory cuss). And though ...
Touch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear. Here's yesterday, last year --- ...
On the Ning Nang Nong Where the Cows go Bong! and the monkeys all say BOO! There's a Nong Nang ...
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