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Riley Love-Lyrics By: James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) |
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RILEY LOVE LYRICS [Illustration] RILEY LOVE LYRICS JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
ILLUSTRATED BY WILL VAWTER INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1883, 1887, 1888, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1894, 1897, 1898, 1901,
1905 by James Whitcomb Riley. Copyright 1921, The Bobbs Merrill Company
Printed in the United States of America
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
BROOKLYN, N.Y. INSCRIBED TO THE ELECT OF LOVE, OR SIDE BY SIDE
IN RAPTEST ECSTASY, OR SUNDERED WIDE
BY SEAS THAT BEAR NO MESSAGE TO OR FRO
BETWEEN THE LOVED AND LOST OF LONG AGO. So were I but a minstrel, deft
At weaving, with the trembling strings
Of my glad harp, the warp and weft
Of rondels such as rapture sings,
I'd loop my lyre across my breast,
Nor stay me till my knee found rest
In midnight banks of bud and flower
Beneath my lady's lattice bower. And there, drenched with the teary dews,
I'd woo her with such wondrous art
As well might stanch the songs that ooze
Out of the mockbird's breaking heart;
So light, so tender, and so sweet
Should be the words I would repeat,
Her casement, on my gradual sight,
Would blossom as a lily might.
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CONTENTS BLOOMS OF MAY 185
DISCOURAGING MODEL, A 132
"DREAM" 41
FARMER WHIFFLE BACHELOR 161
HAS SHE FORGOTTEN? 183
HE AND I 79
HE CALLED HER IN 45
HER BEAUTIFUL EYES 56
HER FACE AND BROW 55
HER HAIR 129
HER WAITING FACE 67
HOME AT NIGHT 122
HOW IT HAPPENED 93
IKE WALTON'S PRAYER 107
ILLILEO 113
JUDITH 75
LAST NIGHT AND THIS 130
LEONAINIE 63
LET US FORGET 60
LOST PATH, THE 83
MY BRIDE THAT IS TO BE 87
MY MARY 117
NOTHIN' TO SAY 103
OLD PLAYED OUT SONG, A' 26
OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE, AN 17
OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, THE 68
OUT WORN SAPPHO, AN 32
PASSING OF A HEART, THE 39
RIVAL, THE 137
ROSE, THE 177
SERMON OF THE ROSE, THE 189
SUSPENSE 136
THEIR SWEET SORROW 72
TO HEAR HER SING 149
TOM VAN ARDEN 138
TOUCHES OF HER HANDS, THE 159
VARIATION, A 151
VERY YOUTHFUL AFFAIR, A 31
WHEN AGE COMES ON 180
WHEN LIDE MARRIED HIM 125
WHEN MY DREAMS COME TRUE 98
WHEN SHE COMES HOME 59
WHERE SHALL WE LAND? 156
WIFE BLESSÉD, THE 115
RILEY LOVE LYRICS [Illustration] AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE As one who cons at evening o'er an album all alone,
And muses on the faces of the friends that he has known,
So I turn the leaves of fancy till, in shadowy design,
I find the smiling features of an old sweetheart of mine. The lamplight seems to glimmer with a flicker of surprise,
As I turn it low to rest me of the dazzle in my eyes,
And light my pipe in silence, save a sigh that seems to yoke
Its fate with my tobacco and to vanish with the smoke. Tis a fragrant retrospection for the loving thoughts that start
Into being are like perfume from the blossom of the heart;
And to dream the old dreams over is a luxury divine
When my truant fancy wanders with that old sweetheart of mine. Though I hear, beneath my study, like a fluttering of wings,
The voices of my children, and the mother as she sings,
I feel no twinge of conscience to deny me any theme
When Care has cast her anchor in the harbor of a dream.
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In fact, to speak in earnest, I believe it adds a charm
To spice the good a trifle with a little dust of harm
For I find an extra flavor in Memory's mellow wine
That makes me drink the deeper to that old sweetheart of mine... Continue reading book >>
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