The Silent Victors (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
MAY 30, 1878,Dying for victory, cheer on cheerThundered on his eager ear. --CHARLES L. HOLSTEIN.IDeep, tender, firm and true, the Nation's ...
James Whitcomb Riley Poems on Heaven (20 Poems)
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 ...
Up And Down Old Brandywine (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Up and down old Brandywine, In the days 'at's past and gone--With a dad-burn hook-and line And a saplin' pole--swawn! I've had more ...
To My Old Friend, William Leachman (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Fer forty year and better you have been a friend to me,Through days of sore afflictions and dire adversity,You allus ...
Das Krist Kindel (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I had fed the fire and stirred it, till the sparkles in delightSnapped their saucy little fingers at the chill ...
Fame (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
IOnce, in a dream, I saw a man With haggard face and tangled hair,And eyes that nursed as wild a care As ...
An Old Sweetheart Of Mine (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,And muses on the faces of the friends that he ...
Song Of The New Year (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I heard the bells at midnight Ring in the dawning year;And above the clanging chorus Of the song, I seemed to hearA ...
The Book Of Joyous Children (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Bound and bordered in leaf-green, Edged with trellised buds and flowers And glad Summer-gold, with clean White and purple morning-glories Such as suit the ...
Prior To Miss Belle’s Appearance (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
What makes you come HERE fer, Mister, So much to our house?--SAY?Come to see our big sister!--An' Charley he says 'at ...
Has She Forgotten? (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I. Has she forgotten? On this very May We were to meet here, with the birds and bees, As on that Sabbath, underneath ...
To Robert Burns (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Sweet Singer that I loe the maistO' ony, sin' wi' eager hasteI smacket bairn-lips ower the tasteO' hinnied sang,I hail ...
“Johnson’s Boy” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
The world is turned ag'in' me, And people says, "They guessThat nothin' else is in me But pure maliciousness!"I git the blame ...
Say Something To Me (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Say something to me! I've waited so long-- Waited and wondered in vain;Only a sentence would fall like a song Over this listening ...
Over The Eyes Of Gladness (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"The voice of One hath spoken, And the bended reed is bruised--The golden bowl is broken, And the silver cord is loosed."Over ...
At Crown Hill (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Leave him here in the freshgreening grasses and treesAnd the symbols of love, and the solace of these-The saintly white ...
Dead In Sight Of Fame (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
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 ...
Harlie (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Fold the little waxen handsLightly. Let your warmest tearsSpeak regrets, but never fears,-- Heaven understands!Let the sad heart, o'er the tomb,Lift again ...
Last Night– And This (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Last night-- how deep the darkness was!And well I knew its depths, becauseI waded it from shore to shore,Thinking to ...
Liberty (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
New Castle, July 4, 1878 or a hundred years the pulse of time Has throbbed for Liberty; For a hundred ...