Farmer Whipple–Bachelor (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
Amos and Ann had a poem to learn, A poem to learn one day; But alas! they sighed, and alack! they cried, 'Twere ...
They went to the February place: 'Twas fashioned, with curious art, Of colored sugar and paper lace, With a front door shaped like ...
The July house was an old, old house, With an old, old man inside, Who told them stories of other days, Stories of ...
Of all the doctors I could cite you to in this-'ere town Doc Sifers is my favorite, jes' take him up ...
Describe fires in riverbottomsand, and the cooking;the cooking of hot dogsspitted in whittled sticksover flames of woodfirewith grease dropping in ...
Abandoned houses areillusion reachingits end;wind and rain and timeroot for theground.They have the calmness broughtby defeat,the bearing of farmerswho are ...
LEMMINIKAINEN'S SECOND WOOING.Spake the ancient LemminkainenTo the hostess of Pohyola:"Give to me thy lovely daughter,Bring me now thy winsome maiden,Bring ...
He had a willow whistle and a fish hook that had beenMade with a youngster's witchery by the bending of ...
I've 'ad, said Dan, "a sight o' curios,But where they've gone, Lord knows!The junk I've packed around, alive an' dead,The ...
Once idly in his hall king Olave satPondering, and with his dagger whittled chips;And one draw near to him with ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
THERE was a giant in time of old, A mighty one was he; He had a wife, but she was ...
Now can you see the monument? It is of wood built somewhat like a box. No. Built like several boxes ...
There are too many waterfalls here; the crowded streams hurry too rapidly down to the sea, and the pressure of ...
My love came up from Barnegat, The sea was in his eyes; He trod as softly as a cat And ...
In love they wore themselves in a green embrace. A silken rain fell through the spring upon them. In the ...
Little things that no one needs -- Little things to joke about -- Little landscapes, done in beads. Little morals, ...
Here at the Super Duper, in a glass tank Supplied by a rill of cold fresh water Running down a ...
When the master was calling the roll At the primary school in Collegelands, You were meant to call back Anseo ...
A Story of Christmas Eve. Strange that the termagant winds should scold The Christmas Eve so bitterly! But Wife, and ...
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