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The Complete Works of James Whitcomb RileyJames Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry. His poems tend to be humorous or sentimental.This collection includes the following:Pipes O'Pan at ZekesburyThe Book of Joyous ChildrenAfterwhilesRiley Songs of HomeRiley Love-LyricsA Defective Santa ClausSongs of FriendshipAn Old Sweetheart of MineNye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns)The Old Soldiers StoryRubaiyat of Doc SifersNeghborly Poems and Dialect SketchesLittle Orphan Annie and Billy Miller's Circus-ShowHome Again With MeRiley Farm-RhymesA Child-WorldRiley Child-Rhymes

15 Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley A Child WorldA defective Santa ClausAfterwhilesAn Old Sweetheart of MineGreen Fields and Running BrooksNye and Riley's Wit and HumorPipes Opan At ZekesburyRiley Child RhymesRiley Farm RhymesRiley Love LyricsRiley Songs Of HomeRubaiyat Of Doc sifersSongs Of FriendshipThe Books of Joyous ChildrenThe Old Soldiers Story

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...tut! you naughty boy With the ball! for shame!" and then, "You boy with the bat, whack him over the head If he calls you that again!" The kind old man--the mild old man--Who gazed on the boys at play, Dreaming, perchance, of his own wild youth When he was as tough as they! A SCRAWL IWANT to sing something--but this is all--I try and I try, but the rhymes are dull As though they were damp, and the echoes fall Limp and unlovable. Words will not say what I yearn to say--They will not walk as I want them to, But they stumble and fall in the path of the way Of my telling my love for you. Simply take what the scrawl is worth--Knowing I love you as sun the sod On the ripening side of the great round earth That swings in the smile of God. AWAY ICAN not say, and I will not say That he is dead.--He is just away! With a cheery smile, and a wave of the hand, He has wandered into an unknown land, And left us dreaming how very fair It needs must be, since he lingers there. And you--O you, who the wildest yearn For the old-time step and the glad return,--Think of him faring on, as dear In the love of There as the love of Here; And loyal still, as he gave the blows Of his warrior-strength to his country's foes.--. Mild and gentle, as he was brave,--When the sweetest love of his life he gave To simple things:--Where the violets grew Blue as the eyes they were likened to, The touches of his hands have strayed As reverently as his lips have prayed: When the little brown thrush that harshly chirred Was dear to him as the mocking-bird; And he pitied as much as a man in pain A writhing honey-bee wet with rain.--Think of him still as the same, I say: He is not dead--he is just away! A MONUMENT FOR THE SOLDIERS AMONUMENT for the Soldiers! And what...

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