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Title: Riley Love-Lyrics
Author: James Whitcomb Riley
Release Date: November 4, 2005 [EBook #16995]
Language: English
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RILEY LOVE-LYRICS
[Illustration: (LOVE-LYRICS)]
RILEY?LOVE-LYRICS
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
WITH LIFE PICTURES BY?WILLIAM B. DYER
[Illustration]
NEW YORK?GROSSET & DUNLAP?PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1883, 1887, 1888, 1890, 1891, 1892, 1894,?1897, 1898, 1901, 1905
by
James Whitcomb Riley
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.
CONTENTS
PAGE
BLOOMS OF MAY 185
DISCOURAGING MODEL, A 133
"DREAM" 46
FARMER WHIPPLE--BACHELOR 167
HAS SHE FORGOTTEN? 181
HE AND I 83
HE CALLED HER IN 50
HER BEAUTIFUL EYES 60
HER HAIR 128
HER FACE AND BROW 63
HER WAITING FACE 71
HOME AT NIGHT 122
HOW IT HAPPENED 95
IKE WALTON'S PRAYER 107
ILLILEO 111
JUDITH 79
LAST NIGHT AND THIS 131
LEONAINIE 68
LET US FORGET 64
LOST PATH, THE 87
MY BRIDE THAT IS TO BE 90
MY MARY 117
NOTHIN' TO SAY 103
OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG, A' 31
OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE, AN 23
OLD YEAR AND THE NEW, THE 72
OUT-WORN SAPPHO, AN 37
PASSING OF A HEART, THE 44
RIVAL, THE 148
ROSE, THE 178
SERMON OF THE ROSE, THE 189
SONG OF LONG AGO, A 160
SUSPENSE 136
THEIR SWEET SORROW 76
TO HEAR HER SING 146
TOM VAN ARDEN 139
TOUCHES OF HER HANDS, THE 157
VARIATION, A 151
VERY YOUTHFUL AFFAIR, A 36
WHEN AGE COMES ON 164
WHEN LIDE MARRIED Him 125
WHEN MY DREAMS COME TRUE 99
WHEN SHE COMES HOME 67
WHERE SHALL WE LAND 154
WIFE-BLESS��D, THE 115
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
LOVE-LYRICS FRONTISPIECE
ILLUSTRATIONS--TAILPIECE xx
AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE 23
AND I LIGHT MY PIPE IN SILENCE 24
THE VOICES OF MY CHILDREN 25
THE PINK SUNBONNET 26
WHEN FIRST I KISSED HER 27
MY WIFE IS STANDING THERE 30
A' OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG 33
A' OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG--TAILPIECE 35
A VERY YOUTHFUL AFFAIR 36
AN OUT-WORN SAPPHO 41
AN OUT-WORN SAPPHO--TAILPIECE 43
THE PASSING OF A HEART--TITLE 44
THE PASSING OF A HEART--TAILPIECE 45
"DREAM" 47
"DREAM"--TAILPIECE 49
HE CALLED HER IN--TITLE 50
A DARK AND EERIE CHILD 51
WHEN SHE FIRST CAME TO ME 57
HE CALLED HER IN--TAILPIECE 59
HER BEAUTIFUL EYES 61
HER FACE AND BROW 63
LET US FORGET--TITLE 64
OUR WORN EYES ARE WET 65
WHEN SHE COMES HOME 67
LEONAINIE--TITLE 68
LEONAINIE--TAILPIECE 70
HER WAITING FACE 71
THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW--TITLE 72
I SAW THE OLD YEAR END 73
THEIR SWEET SORROW 77
JUDITH 79
O, HER EYES ARE AMBER-FINE 81
HE AND I 85
THE LOST PATH--TITLE 87
THE LOST PATH 89
MADONNA-LIKE AND GLORIFIED 91
HOW IT HAPPENED 97
WHEN MY DREAMS COME TRUE 101
NOTHIN' TO SAY 105
IKE WALTON'S PRAYER--TITLE 107
IKE WALTON'S PRAYER--TAILPIECE 110
ILLILEO 113
WIFE-BLESS��D, THE 115
THE AULD TRYSTING-TREE 119
MY MARY--TAILPIECE 121
HOME AT NIGHT 123
WHEN LIDE MARRIED Him--TITLE 125
WHEN LIDE MARRIED Him--TAILPIECE 127
HER HAIR 129
LAST NIGHT AND THIS--TITLE 131
LAST NIGHT AND THIS--TAILPIECE 132
A DISCOURAGING MODEL--TITLE 133
A CAMEO FACE 135
SUSPENSE 137
TOM VAN ARDEN--TITLE 139
TOM VAN ARDEN 141
TO HEAR HER SING 146
THE RIVAL 148
A VARIATION--TITLE 151
WHERE SHALL WE LAND?--TITLE 154
WHERE SHALL WE LAND?--TAILPIECE 156
THE TOUCHES OF HER HANDS--TITLE 157
THE TOUCHES OF HER HANDS--TAILPIECE 158
O RARELY SOFT, THE TOUCHES OF HER HANDS 159
A SONG OF LONG AGO 161
WHEN AGE COMES ON 165
FARMER WHIPPLE--BACHELOR--TITLE 167
RIDIN' HOME WITH MARY 171
FARMER WHIPPLE--BACHELOR--TAILPIECE 177
THE ROSE--TITLE 178
HAS SHE FORGOTTEN? 183
BLOOMS OF MAY--TITLE 185
O LAD AND LASS 186
O GLEAM AND GLOOM AND WOODLAND BLOOM 187
THE SERMON OF THE ROSE 191
[Illustration: (ILLUSTRATIONS--TAILPIECE)]
RILEY LOVE-LYRICS
[Illustration: (AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE)]
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.
[Illustration: (AND I LIGHT MY PIPE IN SILENCE)]
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