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 ...
Coming, clean from the Maryland-endOf this great National Road of ours,Through your vast West; with the time to spend,Stopping for ...
And there, in that ripe Summer-night, once moreA wintry coolness through the open doorAnd window seemed to touch each glowing ...
My little story, Cousin Rufus said,Is not so much a story as a fact.It is about a certain willful boy--An ...
Ah, Almon Keefer! what a boy you were,With your back-tilted hat and careless hair,And open, honest, fresh, fair face and ...
To William Morris PiersonOf the wealth of facts and fancies That our memories may recall,The old school-day romances Are the dearest, after ...
Within the sitting-room, the companyHad been increased in number. Two or threeYoung couples had been added: Emma King,Ella and Mary ...
I. Tugg Martin's tough.--No doubt o' that! And down there at The town he come from word's bin sent Advisin' this-here Settle-ment To kindo' _humor_ ...
And you're the poet of this concern? I've seed your name in printA dozen times, but I'll be dern I'd 'a' never ...
Old wortermelon time is a-comin' round again, And they ain't no man a-livin' any tickleder'n me,Fer the way I hanker after ...
At Noey's house--when they arrived with him--How snug seemed everything, and neat and trim:The little picket-fence, and little gate--It's little ...
On old Brandywine-- aboutWhere White's Lots is now laid out,And the old crick narries downTo the ditch that splits the ...
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,And muses on the faces of the friends that he ...
They called him Mr. What's-his-name:From where he was, or why he came,Or when, or what he found to do,Nobody in ...
Oh! tell me a tale of the airly days-- Of the times as they ust to be;"Piller of Fi-er" and "Shakespeare's ...
A quite convincing axiom Is, "Life is like a play";For, turning back its pages some Few dog-eared years away, I find where I Committed ...
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