What Smith Knew About Farming (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
There wasn't two purtier farms in the stateThan the couple of which I'm about to relate;--Jinin' each other--belongin' to Brown,And ...
There wasn't two purtier farms in the stateThan the couple of which I'm about to relate;--Jinin' each other--belongin' to Brown,And ...
MAY 30, 1878,Dying for victory, cheer on cheerThundered on his eager ear. --CHARLES L. HOLSTEIN.IDeep, tender, firm and true, the Nation's ...
Young Philiper Flash was a promising lad,His intentions were good--but oh, how sad For a person to think How the veriest pinkAnd ...
IOnce, in a dream, I saw a man With haggard face and tangled hair,And eyes that nursed as wild a care As ...
We must get home! How could we stray like this?--So far from home, we know not where it is,--Only in ...
There was a curious quiet for a spaceDirectly following: and in the faceOf one rapt listener pulsed the flush and ...
Oh, the Circus-Day parade! How the bugles played and played!And how the glossy horses tossed their flossy manes, and neighed,As ...
Thou Poet, who, like any lark, Dost whet thy beak and trill From misty morn till murky dark, Nor ever pipe thy fill: Hast ...
It's many's the scenes which is dear to my mindAs I think of my childhood so long left behind;The home ...
We must get home--for we have been away So long it seems forever and a day! And O so very homesick we ...
Most tangible of all the gods that be,O Santa Claus-- our own since Infancy!As first we scampered to thee-- now, ...
The past is like a story I have listened to in dreamsThat vanished in the glory Of the Morning's early gleams;And--at my ...
DIED--Early morning of September 5, 1876, andin the gleaming dawn of "name and fame,"Hamilton J. Dunbar.Dead! Dead! Dead! We thought him ours alone;And ...
While with Ambition's hectic flame He wastes the midnight oil, And dreams, high-throned on heights of fame, To rest him from his toil,-- Death's ...
A goddess, with a siren's grace,-- A sun-haired girl on a craggy place Above a bay where fish-boats lay Drifting ...
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