The Bear-Story (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
THAT ALEX "IST MAKED UP HIS-OWN-SE'F"W'y, wunst they wuz a Little Boy went outIn the woods to shoot a Bear. ...
THAT ALEX "IST MAKED UP HIS-OWN-SE'F"W'y, wunst they wuz a Little Boy went outIn the woods to shoot a Bear. ...
It's a mystery to see me--a man o' fifty-four,Who's lived a cross old bachelor fer thirty year' and more--A-lookin' glad ...
If yet, my Lord, your Sorrows find relief,And a short Pause succeeds your weighty Grief;With Candour this unwelcome Verse peruse,The ...
I. 1.For toils which patriots have endur'd,For treason quell'd and laws secur'd,In every nation Time displaysThe palm of honourable praise.Envy ...
I 1.Farewell to Leyden's lonely bound,The Belgian Muse's sober seat;Where dealing frugal gifts aroundTo all the favorites at her feet,She ...
Ye viewless guardians of these sacred shades,Dear dreams of early song, Aonian maids!--And you, illustrious dead! whose spirits speakIn each ...
If, dearest Dismal, you for once can dineUpon a single dish, and tavern wine,Toland to you this invitation sends,To eat ...
Observe the dying father speak:Try, lads, can you this bundle break?Then bids the youngest of the sixTake up a well-bound ...
They's a kind o' _feel_ in the air, to me. When the Chris'mas-times sets in.That's about as much of a mystery As ...
Be it ryght or wrong, these men amongOn women do complayne;Affyrmynge this, how that it isA labour spent in vayneTo ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce himFor the sake of the children,And Judge Somers advised him the same.So we ...
A Pastorall Elegie vpon the death of the most Noble and valorous Knight, Sir Philip Sidney. Dedicated To the most ...
MArk when she smiles with amiable cheare, And tell me whereto can ye lyken it: when on each eyelid sweetly ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
My mother was for woman's rights And my father was the rich miller at London Mills. I dreamed of the ...
I began with Sir William Hamilton's lectures. Then studied Dugald Stewart; And then John Locke on the Understanding, And then ...
There would be a knock at the door And I would arise at midnight and go to the shop, Where ...
I lost my patronage in Spoon River From trying to put my mind in the camera To catch the soul ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce him For the sake of the children, And Judge Somers advised him the ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories