Bud’s Fairy-Tale (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Some peoples thinks they ain't no Fairies _now_No more yet!--But they _is_, I bet! 'Cause efThey _wuzn't_ Fairies, nen I' ...
James Whitcomb Riley Poems on Madness (14 Poems)
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 ...
A New Year’s Time At Willards’s (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
1 The Hired Man TalksThere's old man Willards; an' his wife;An' Marg'et-- S'repty's sister--; an'There's me-- an' I'm the hired man;An' ...
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. ...
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' ...
The Way It Wuz (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Las' July--an', I persume 'Bout as hot As the ole Gran'-Jury room Where they sot!-- Fight 'twixt Mike an' Dock McGriff-- 'Pears to me jes' ...
My Bride That Is To Be (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
O soul of mine, look out and see My bride, my bride that is to be! Reach out with mad, impatient hands,And ...
Joney (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Had a hare-lip-- Joney had:Spiled his looks, and Joney knowed it:Fellers tried to bore him, bad--But ef ever he got ...
“Hik-Tee-Dik!” (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
THE WAR-CRY OF BILLY AND BUDDY When two little boys--renowned but for noise-- Hik-tee-dik! Billy and Buddy!-- May hurt a whole school, and ...
Our Boyhood Haunts (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Ho! I'm going back to whereWe were youngsters.--Meet me there,Dear old barefoot chum, and weWill be as we used to ...
The Bat (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I. Thou dread, uncanny thing, With fuzzy breast and leathern wing, In mad, zigzagging flight, Notching the dusk, and buffeting The black cheeks of the ...
Bedouin (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
O love is like an untamed steed!-- So hot of heart and wild of speed, And with fierce freedom so in love, The ...
Our Hired Girl (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Our hired girl, she's 'Lizabuth Ann; An' she can cook best things to eat! She ist puts dough in our ...
Granny (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Granny's come to our house, And ho! my lawzy-daisy! All the childern round the place Is ist a-runnin' crazy! Fetched ...