Riley Songs of Friendship
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Riley Songs of Friendship - James Whitcomb Riley
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Title: Songs of Friendship
Author: James Whitcomb Riley
Release Date: October 20, 2007 [eBook #23111]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SONGS OF FRIENDSHIP***
E-text prepared by Al Haines
RILEY SONGS OF FRIENDSHIP
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
WITH PICTURES BY
WILL VAWTER
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1885, 1887, 1888, 1890,
1892, 1893, 1894, 1900, 1903, 1908,
1913, 1915
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
To
Young E. Allison—Bookman
The bookman he's a humming-bird—
His feasts are honey-fine,—
(With hi! hilloo!
And clover-dew
And roses lush and rare!)
His roses are the phrase and word
Of olden tomes divine;
(With hi! and ho!
And pinks ablow
And posies everywhere!)
The Bookman he's a humming-bird,—
He steals from song to song—
He scents the ripest-blooming rhyme,
And takes his heart along
And sacks all sweets of bursting verse
And ballads, throng on throng.
(With ho! and hey!
And brook and brae,
And brinks of shade and shine!)
A humming-bird the Bookman is—
Though cumbrous, gray and grim,—
(With hi! hilloo!
And honey-dew
And odors musty-rare!)
He bends him o'er that page of his
As o'er the rose's rim.
(With hi! and ho!
And pinks aglow
And roses everywhere!)
Ay, he's the featest humming-bird,
On airiest of wings
He poises pendent o'er the poem
That blossoms as it sings—
God friend him as he dips his beak
In such delicious things!
(With ho! and hey!
And world away
And only dreams for him!)
O friends of mine, whose kindly words come to me
Voiced only in lost lisps of ink and pen,
If I had power to tell the good you do me,
And how the blood you warm goes laughing through me,
My tongue would babble baby-talk again.
And I would toddle round the world to meet you—
Fall at your feet, and clamber to your knees
And with glad, happy hands would reach and greet you,
And twine my arms about you, and entreat you
For leave to weave a thousand rhymes like these—
A thousand rhymes enwrought of nought but presses
Of cherry-lip and apple-cheek and chin,
And pats of honeyed palms, and rare caresses,
And all the sweets of which as Fancy guesses
She folds away her wings and swoons therein.
CONTENTS
PAGE
ABE MARTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
AMERICA'S THANKSGIVING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
ANCIENT PRINTERMAN, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
ART AND POETRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
BACK FROM TOWN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
BE OUR FORTUNES AS THEY MAY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
BECAUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
CHRISTMAS GREETING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
DAN O'SULLIVAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
DEAD JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN, THE . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
DOWN TO THE CAPITAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
FRIEND OF A WAYWARD HOUR . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
GOOD-BY ER HOWDY-DO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
HER VALENTINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
HERR WEISER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
HOBO VOLUNTARY, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
I SMOKE MY PIPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
IN THE AFTERNOON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
IN THE HEART OF JUNE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
JAMES B. MAYNARD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
LETTER TO A FRIEND, A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
LITTLE MAN IN THE TINSHOP, THE
. . . . . . . . . . . . 61
LITTLE OLD POEM THAT