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' ...
James Whitcomb Riley Poems on Wine (20 Poems)
The Speeding Of The King’s Spite (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A king--estranged from his loving Queen By a foolish royal whim--Tired and sick of the dull routine Of matters surrounding him--Issued a ...
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 ...
The South Wind And The Sun (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
O The South Wind and the Sun!How each loved the other oneFull of fancy--- full folly--Full of jollity and fun!How ...
Tom Van Arden (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Tom Van Arden, my old friend, Our warm fellowship is oneFar too old to comprehend Where its bond was first begun: Mirage-like before ...
Autumn (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
As a harvester, at dusk, Faring down some woody trail Leading homeward through the musk Of may-apple and pawpaw, Hazel-bush, and spice and haw,-- So ...
My Jolly Friend’s Secret (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Ah, friend of mine, how goes it, Since you've taken you a mate?--Your smile, though, plainly shows it Is a very happy ...
A Dream Of Long Ago (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Lying listless in the mossesUnderneath a tree that tossesFlakes of sunshine, and embosses Its green shadow with the snow--Drowsy-eyed, I sink ...
A New Year’s Plaint (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
In words like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er, Like coarsest clothes against the cold; But that large grief which these enfoldIs given ...
A Dream Of Autumn (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
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 ...
A Dream (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
I dreamed I was a spider;A big, fat, hungry spider;A lusty, rusty spider With a dozen palsied limbs;With a dozen limbs ...
Father William (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
A NEW VERSION BY LEE O. HARRIS AND JAMESWHITCOMB RILEY"You are old, Father William, and though one would think All the ...
North And South (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Of the North I wove a dream, All bespangled with the gleam Of the glancing wings of swallows Dipping ripples in a stream, That, ...
Job Work (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
"Write me a rhyme of the present time". And the poet took his penAnd wrote such lines as the miser minds Hide ...
Dreamer, Say (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
Dreamer, say, will you dream for me A wild sweet dream of a foreign land,Whose border sips of a foaming sea With ...
For You (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
For you, I could forget the gay Delirium of merriment,And let my laughter die away In endless silence of content. I could forget, ...
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 ...
A Fruit Piece (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
The afternoon of summer foldsIts warm arms round the marigolds,And with its gleaming fingers, petsThe watered pinks and violetsThat from ...
Judith (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
O her eyes are amber-fine-- Dark and deep as wells of wine, While her smile is like the noon Splendor of a day ...
A Wraith Of Summertime (James Whitcomb Riley Poems)
In its color, shade and shine, 'T was a summer warm as wine, With an effervescent flavoring of flowered bough and vine, And ...