James Whitcomb Riley Poems

I woo'd a woman once,
But she was sharper than an eastern wind.
Tennyson
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I cannot say, and I will not say
That he is dead- . He is just away!

With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand
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O I will walk with you, my lad, whichever way you fare,
You'll have me, too, the side o' you, with heart as light as air;
No care for where the road you take's a-leadin' anywhere,--
It can but be a joyful ja'nt whilst you journey there.
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What delightful hosts are they --
   Life and Love!
Lingeringly I turn away,
   This late hour, yet glad enough
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New Castle, July 4, 1878

or a hundred years the pulse of time
Has throbbed for Liberty;
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1 Our hired girl, she's 'Lizabuth Ann;
2 An' she can cook best things to eat!
3 She ist puts dough in our pie-pan,
4 An' pours in somepin' 'at's good an' sweet;
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Scene.--_A kitchen.--Group of Children, popping corn.--The Fairy Queen
of the Seasons discovered in the smoke of the corn-popper.--Waving her
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Lying listless in the mosses
Underneath a tree that tosses
Flakes of sunshine, and embosses
Its green shadow with the snow--
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Let us rest ourselves a bit!
Worry?-- wave your hand to it --
Kiss your finger-tips and smile
It farewell a little while.
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A good man never dies--
In worthy deed and prayer
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