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 ...
It was a queer October place-- No house, you'd say, at all! A wide brown wood with leaves for a floor, And timbers ...
No, you don't quite get the meaning when the fun is at its heightWith the neighbours at the breakfast, and ...
Monarch of Hannah's rocking-chair,With unclipped beard and unkempt hair,Sitting at ease by the kitchen fire, Nor heeding the wind and the ...
Our good knight, Ted, girds his broadsword on (And he wields it well, I ween); He 's on his steed, and away ...
Knit, knit, knit, knit! See old white-capped Pussy sit, Fairly gray with worry and care, In her ...
Little shadows, little shadows Dancing on the chamber wall, While I sit beside the hearthstone Where the red flames rise ...
Of all the men I ever knew The tinkingest was Uncle Jim; If there were any chores to do We ...
Oh how I'd be gay and glad If a little house I had, Snuggled in a shady lot, With behind ...
When I am old and worse for wear I want to buy a rocking-chair, And set it on a porch ...
Here where the wind is always north-north-east And children learn to walk on frozen toes, Wonder begets an envy of ...
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