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 ...
James Whitcomb Riley Poems on Cry (38 Poems)
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 ...
Squire Hawkins’s Story (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I hain't no hand at tellin' tales,Er spinnin' yarns, as the sailors say;Someway o' 'nother, language failsTo slide fer me ...
A Session With Uncle Sidney (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
IONE OF HIS ANIMAL STORIES Now, Tudens, you sit on _this_ knee--and 'scuse It having no side-saddle on;--and, Jeems, You sit on _this_--and ...
“Little Jack Janitor” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
And there, in that ripe Summer-night, once moreA wintry coolness through the open doorAnd window seemed to touch each glowing ...
George Mullen’s Confession (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
For the sake of guilty conscience, and the heart that ticks thetimeOf the clockworks of my nature, I desire to ...
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. ...
What The Wind Said (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
'I muse to-day, in a listless way, In the gleam of a summer land;I close my eyes as a lover may At ...
The Loehrs And The Hammonds (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"Hey, Bud! O Bud!" rang out a gleeful call,--"_The Loehrs is come to your house!_" And a smallBut very much ...
He Called Her In (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
IHe called her in from me and shut the door.And she so loved the sunshine and the sky!--She loved them ...
Doc Sifers (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Of all the doctors I could cite you to in this-'ere town Doc Sifers is my favorite, jes' take him up ...
A Bear Family (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Wunst, 'way West in Illinoise, Wuz two Bears an' their two boys: An' the two boys' names, you know, Wuz--like _ours_ is,--Jim an' ...
A Dubious “Old Kriss” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Us-folks is purty _pore_--but Ma She's waitin'--two years more--tel Pa He serve his term out. Our Pa he-- _He's in the Penitenchurrie_! Now don't ...
The Drum (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
O the drum! There is some Intonation in thy grum Monotony of utterance that strikes the spirit dumb, As we hear Through the clear And unclouded ...
Man’s Devotion (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A lover said, "O Maiden, love me well,For I must go away:And should ANOTHER ever come to tellOf love--What WILL ...
A Christmas Memory (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Pa he bringed me here to stay 'Til my Ma she's well.--An' nen He's go' hitch up, Chris'mus-day, An' come take me back ...
When Old Jack Died (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I. When old Jack died, we staid from school (they said, At home, we needn't go that day), and none Of us ate ...
Jim (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
He was jes a plain ever'-day, all-round kind of a jour.,Consumpted-Iookin'-- but la!The jokeiest, wittiest, story-tellin', song-singin', laughin'est, jolliestFeller you ...
Dead Leaves (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
DAWNAs though a gipsy maiden with dim look, Sat crooning by the roadside of the year, So, Autumn, in thy strangeness, thou ...
The Chant Of The Cross-Bearing Child (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I bear dis cross dis many a mile. O de cross-bearin' chile-- De cross-bearin' chile! I bear dis cross 'long many a road Wha' ...
The Sermon Of The Rose (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Wilful we are in our infirmityOf childish questioning and discontent.Whate'er befalls us is divinely meant--Thou Truth the clearer for thy ...
At Last (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A dark, tempestuous night; the stars shut in With shrouds of fog; an inky, jet-black blotThe firmament; and where the moon ...
“Igo And Ago” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
We're The Twins from Aunt Marinn's, Igo and Ago. When Dad comes, the show begins!-- Iram, coram, dago. Dad he says he named us ...
The Lost Kiss (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I put by the half-written poem,While the pen, idly trailed in my hand,Writes on--, "Had I words to complete it,Who'd ...
The Runaway Boy (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Wunst I sassed my Pa, an' heWon't stand that, an' punished me,--Nen when he was gone that day,I slipped out ...
The Tree-Toad (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"'Scurious-like," said the tree-toad, "I've twittered far rain all day; And I got up soon, And I hollered till noon-- But the sun, hit ...
Craqueodoom (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
The Crankadox leaned o'er the edge of the moon And wistfully gazed on the seaWhere the Gryxabodill madly whistled a tune To ...
A Diverted Tragedy (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Gracie wuz allus a _careless_ tot; But Gracie dearly loved her doll, An' played wiv it on the winder-sill 'Way up-stairs, when she ...
The Quest (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I am looking for Love. Has he passed this way,With eyes as blue as the skies of May,And a face ...
Little-Girl-Two-Little-Girls (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I'm twins, I guess, 'cause my Ma say I'm two little girls. An' one o' me Is _Good_ little girl; an' th'other ...