The Speeding Of The King’s Spite (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A king--estranged from his loving Queen By a foolish royal whim--Tired and sick of the dull routine Of matters surrounding him--Issued a ...
A king--estranged from his loving Queen By a foolish royal whim--Tired and sick of the dull routine Of matters surrounding him--Issued a ...
I' b'en a-kindo musin', as the feller says, and I'm About o' the conclusion that they ain't no better time, When you ...
Years fifty, and seven to boot, have smitten the children of menSince sound of a voice or a foot came ...
In words like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold; But that large grief which these enfoldIs given ...
The mounted disk of eboniteHas whirled before, nor whirled in vain;Rowland of Troy, that doughty knight,Convection currents did obtainIn such ...
Here's his ragged "roundabout";Turn the pockets inside out:See; his pen-knife, lost to use,Rusted shut with apple-juice;Here, with marbles, top and ...
On the "Betis"Swift I floatAs my boatLightly goes,And the breezeHovering nowOn my browFaintly blows.Oarsman, row,Row afar;Evening starWill appear,There to westClimbing ...
There's sun on the river and sun on the hill . . .You can hear the sea if you stand ...
When N Burbadge played, the stage was bareOf fount and temple, tower and stair;Two backswords eked a battle out;Two supers ...
The angel and the girl are metEarth was the only meeting place.For the embodied never yetTravelled beyond the shore of ...
There's sun on the river and sun on the hill . . .You can hear the sea if you stand ...
Pet was never mourned as you, Purrer of the spotless hue, Plumy tail, and wistful gaze While you humoured our ...
He often would ask us That, when he died, After playing so many To their last rest, If out of ...
Some say that Guy of Warwick The man that killed the Cow, And brake the mighty Boar alive Beyond the ...
Encase your legs in nylons, Bestride your hills with pylons O age without a soul; Away with gentle willows And ...
INSCRIBED WITH ALL FAITH AND AFFECTION To all the little children: -- The happy ones; and sad ones; The sober ...
My father and mother, my brother and sister and I, with uncle Pat, our dour best-loved uncle, had set out ...
There's sun on the river and sun on the hill . . . You can hear the sea if you ...
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