Love Poems – Page 2552

• The Old Man and Jim

  Old man never had much to say—
  ’Ceptin’ to Jim,—
  And Jim was the wildest boy he had, …

  James Whitcomb Riley English

• A Life-Lesson

  There! little girl, don’t cry!
  They have broken your doll, I know;
  And your tea-set blue, …

  James Whitcomb Riley English

• The Way the Baby Woke

  And this is the way the baby woke:
  As when in deepest drops of dew
  The shine and shadows sink and soak, …

  James Whitcomb Riley English

• The Way the Baby Slept

  This is the way the baby slept:
  A mist of tresses backward thrown
  By quavering sighs where kisses crept …

  James Whitcomb Riley English

• Ike Walton's Prayer

  I crave, dear Lord,
  No boundless hoard
  Of gold and gear, …

  James Whitcomb Riley English

• On the Death of Little Mahala Ashcraft

  “little haly! Little Haly!” cheeps the robin in the tree;
  “Little Haly!” sighs the clover, “Little Haly!” moans the bee;
  “Little Haly! Little Haly!” calls the kill-deer at twilight; …

  James Whitcomb Riley English

• Little Orphant Annie

  Little orphant Annie ’s come to our house to stay,
  An’ wash the cups and saucers up, an’ brush the crumbs away,
  An’ shoo the chickens off the porch, an’ dust the hearth, an’ sweep, …

  James Whitcomb Riley English

• Dwainie

  Ay, dwainie!—my Dwainie!
  The lurloo ever sings,
  A tremor in his flossy crest …

  James Whitcomb Riley English

• Honey Dripping from the Comb

  How slight a thing may set one’s fancy drifting
  Upon the dead sea of the Past!—A view—
  Sometimes an odor—or a rooster lifting …

  James Whitcomb Riley English

• A Man

  A man by the name of Bolus—(all ’at we ’ll ever know
  Of the stranger’s name, I reckon—and I ’m kindo’ glad it ’s so!)—
  Got off here, Christmas morning, looked ’round the town, and then …

  the Name of Bolus English

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