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' ...
Some peoples thinks they ain't no Fairies _now_No more yet!--But they _is_, I bet! 'Cause efThey _wuzn't_ Fairies, nen I' ...
MAY 30, 1878,Dying for victory, cheer on cheerThundered on his eager ear. --CHARLES L. HOLSTEIN.IDeep, tender, firm and true, the Nation's ...
How tired I am! I sink down all alone Here by the wayside of the Present. Lo,Even as a child I ...
"My grandfather Squeers," said The Raggedy Man,As he solemnly lighted his pipe and began--"The most indestructible man, for his years,And ...
IOnce, in a dream, I saw a man With haggard face and tangled hair,And eyes that nursed as wild a care As ...
"I'm home again, my dear old Room, I'm home again, and happy, too,As, peering through the brightening gloom, I find myself alone ...
I. Has she forgotten? On this very May We were to meet here, with the birds and bees, As on that Sabbath, underneath ...
Little brook! Little brook! You have such a happy look--Such a very merry manner, as you swerve and curve and crook-- And your ...
With a sweeter voice than birds Dare to twitter in their sleep,Pipe for me a tune of words, Till my dancing fancies ...
"_Where shall we land you, sweet_?"--Swinburne. All listlessly we float Out seaward in the boat That beareth Love. Our sails of purest snow Bend to ...
There are many things that boys may know-- Why this and that are thus and so,-- Who made the world in the ...
Hi and whoop-hooray, boys! Sing a song of cheer!Here's a holiday, boys, Lasting half a year!Round the world, and half is Shadow we ...
Because her eyes were far too deepAnd holy for a laugh to leapAcross the brink where sorrow triedTo drown within ...
Dreamer, say, will you dream for me A wild sweet dream of a foreign land,Whose border sips of a foaming sea With ...
O touch me with your hands-- For pity's sake! My brow throbs ever on with such an ache As only your cool touch ...
Where do you go when you go to sleep, Little Boy! Little Boy! where?'Way--'way in where's Little Bo-Peep,And Little Boy Blue, ...
The touches of her hands are like the fall Of velvet snowflakes; like the touch of down The peach just brushes 'gainst ...
"How did you rest, last night?"-- I've heard my gran'pap sayThem words a thousand times--that's right-- Jes them words thataway!As punctchul-like as ...
The touches of her hands are like the fall Of velvet snowflakes; like the touch of downThe peach just brushes 'gainst ...
The maple strews the embers of its leaves O'er the laggard swallows nestled 'neath the eaves; And the moody cricket falters in ...
Sometimes I keep From going to sleep, To hear the katydids "cheep-cheep!" And think they say Their prayers that way; But _katydids_ don't have to ...
By her white bed I muse a little space: She fell asleep--not very long ago,-- And yet the grass was here and ...
Far in the night, and yet no rest for him! The pillow next his own The wife's sweet face in slumber ...
"Rain and Rain! and rain and rain!" Yesterday we muttered Grimly as the grim refrain That the thunders uttered: All ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories