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 ...
Wintertime, er Summertime, Of late years I notice I'm, Kindo'-like, more subjec' to What the _weather_ is. Now, you Folks 'at lives in town, I ...
Another hero of those youthful yearsReturns, as Noey Bixler's name appears.And Noey--if in any special way--Was notably good-natured.--Work or playHe ...
Nobody on the old farm here but Mother, me and John, Except, of course, the extry he'p when harvest-time come on-- And ...
'I muse to-day, in a listless way, In the gleam of a summer land;I close my eyes as a lover may At ...
Ah, Almon Keefer! what a boy you were,With your back-tilted hat and careless hair,And open, honest, fresh, fair face and ...
ISONG With a hey! and a hi! and a hey-ho rhyme! O the shepherd lad He is ne'er so glad As when he pipes, ...
IHe called her in from me and shut the door.And she so loved the sunshine and the sky!--She loved them ...
O The South Wind and the Sun!How each loved the other oneFull of fancy--- full folly--Full of jollity and fun!How ...
A fantasy that came to me As wild and wantonly designedAs ever any dream might be Unraveled from a madman's mind,--A tangle-work ...
Fer forty year and better you have been a friend to me,Through days of sore afflictions and dire adversity,You allus ...
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 ...
O soul of mine, look out and see My bride, my bride that is to be! Reach out with mad, impatient hands,And ...
As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,And muses on the faces of the friends that he ...
DAWNAs though a gipsy maiden with dim look, Sat crooning by the roadside of the year, So, Autumn, in thy strangeness, thou ...
Grand Haven is in Michigan, and in possession, too, Of as many rare attractions as our party ever knew:-- The fine hotel, ...
Mellow hazes, lowly trailing Over wood and meadow, veiling Somber skies, with wildfowl sailing Sailor-like to foreign lands; And the north-wind overleaping Summer's brink, and ...
Little brook! Little brook! You have such a happy look--Such a very merry manner, as you swerve and curve and crook-- And your ...
It tossed its head at the wooing breeze; And the sun, like a bashful swain,Beamed on it through the waving trees With ...
A day of torpor in the sullen heat Of Summer's passion: In the sluggish streamThe panting cattle lave their lazy feet, With drowsy ...
Scene.--_A kitchen.--Group of Children, popping corn.--The Fairy Queenof the Seasons discovered in the smoke of the corn-popper.--Waving herwand, and, with ...
The stars are falling, and the skyIs like a field of faded flowers;The winds on weary wings go by;The moon ...
I. When my dreams come true--when my dreams come true-- Shall I lean from out my casement, in the starlight and the ...
Leonainie--Angels named her; And they took the lightOf the laughing stars and framed her In a smile of white; And they made her ...
I. In the jolly winters Of the long-ago, It was not so cold as now-- O! No! No! Then, as I remember, Snowballs, to eat, Were as ...
The Town Karnteel--! It's who'll revealIts praises jushtifiable?For who can sing av anythingSo lovely and reliable?Whin Summer, Spring, or Winter ...
So lone I stood, the very trees seemed drawn In conference with themselves.--Intense--intense Seemed everything;--the summer splendor on The sight,--magnificence! A babe's life might ...
I am looking for Love. Has he passed this way,With eyes as blue as the skies of May,And a face ...
Hey, Old Midsummer! are you here again, With all your harvest-store of olden joys,--Vast overhanging meadow-lands of rain,And drowsy dawns, and ...
The orchard lands of Long Ago!O drowsy winds, awake, and blowThe snowy blossoms back to me,And all the buds that ...
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