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Title: Riley Love-Lyrics
Author: James Whitcomb Riley
Illustrator: Will Vawter
Release Date: November 23, 2006 [EBook #19897]
Language: English
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RILEY LOVE-LYRICS
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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-BLESS��D, THE 115
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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.
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