Riley Love-Lyrics

James Whitcomb Riley

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• Publié par: nuver
• Publié le: 08 décembre 2010
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• Langue: English
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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Riley Love-Lyrics, by James Whitcomb Riley This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Riley Love-Lyrics Author: James Whitcomb Riley Release Date: November 4, 2005 [EBook #16995] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK RILEY LOVE-LYRICS *** Produced by Suzanne Lybarger, Brian Janes, Diane Monico, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net RILEY LOVE-LYRICS RILEY LOVE-LYRICS JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY WITH LIFE PICTURES BY WILLIAM B. DYER 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 D ISCOURAGING MODEL, A "D REAM" FARMER WHIPPLE—BACHELOR H AS SHE FORGOTTEN? H E AND I H E C ALLED H ER IN H ER BEAUTIFUL EYES H ER H AIR H ER FACE AND BROW H ER WAITING FACE H OME AT N IGHT H OW IT H APPENED IKE WALTON'S PRAYER ILLILEO JUDITH LAST N IGHT AND THIS LEONAINIE LET U S FORGET LOST PATH, THE MY BRIDE THAT IS TO BE MY MARY N OTHIN' TO SAY OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG , A' OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE, AN OLD YEAR AND THE N EW, THE OUT-WORN SAPPHO , AN PASSING OF A H EART, THE R IVAL, THE R OSE, THE 185 133 46 167 181 83 50 60 128 63 71 122 95 107 111 79 131 68 64 87 90 117 103 31 23 72 37 44 148 178 SERMON OF THE R OSE, THE SONG OF LONG AGO , A SUSPENSE THEIR SWEET SORROW TO H EAR H ER SING TOM VAN ARDEN TOUCHES OF H ER H ANDS, THE VARIATION, A VERY YOUTHFUL AFFAIR, A WHEN AGE C OMES ON WHEN LIDE MARRIED Him WHEN MY D REAMS C OME TRUE WHEN SHE C OMES H OME WHERE SHALL WE LAND WIFE-BLESSÉD, THE 189 160 136 76 146 139 157 151 36 164 125 99 67 154 115 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE LOVE-LYRICS ILLUSTRATIONS—TAILPIECE AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE AND I LIGHT MY PIPE IN SILENCE THE VOICES OF MY C HILDREN THE PINK SUNBONNET WHEN FIRST I KISSED H ER (UNTITLED IMAGE) MY WIFE IS STANDING THERE A' OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG A' OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG —TAILPIECE A VERY YOUTHFUL AFFAIR AN OUT-WORN SAPPHO AN OUT-WORN SAPPHO —TAILPIECE FRONTISPIECE xx 23 24 25 26 27 29 30 33 35 36 41 43 THE PASSING OF A H EART—TITLE THE PASSING OF A H EART—TAILPIECE "D REAM" "D REAM"—TAILPIECE H E C ALLED H ER IN—TITLE A D ARK AND EERIE C HILD WHEN SHE FIRST C AME TO ME H E C ALLED H ER IN—TAILPIECE H ER BEAUTIFUL EYES H ER FACE AND BROW LET U S FORGET—TITLE OUR WORN EYES ARE WET WHEN SHE C OMES H OME LEONAINIE—TITLE LEONAINIE—TAILPIECE H ER WAITING FACE THE OLD YEAR AND THE N EW—TITLE I SAW THE OLD YEAR END THEIR SWEET SORROW JUDITH O, H ER EYES ARE AMBER-FINE H E AND I THE LOST PATH—TITLE THE LOST PATH MADONNA-LIKE AND GLORIFIED H OW IT H APPENED WHEN MY D REAMS C OME TRUE N OTHIN' TO SAY IKE WALTON'S PRAYER—TITLE IKE WALTON'S PRAYER—TAILPIECE ILLILEO WIFE-BLESSÉD, THE THE AULD TRYSTING -TREE MY MARY—TAILPIECE 44 45 47 49 50 51 57 59 61 63 64 65 67 68 70 71 72 73 77 79 81 85 87 89 91 97 101 105 107 110 113 115 119 121 H OME AT N IGHT WHEN LIDE MARRIED Him—TITLE WHEN LIDE MARRIED Him—TAILPIECE H ER H AIR LAST N IGHT AND THIS—TITLE LAST N IGHT AND THIS—TAILPIECE A D ISCOURAGING MODEL—TITLE A C AMEO FACE SUSPENSE TOM VAN ARDEN—TITLE TOM VAN ARDEN TO H EAR H ER SING THE R IVAL A VARIATION—TITLE WHERE SHALL WE LAND?—TITLE WHERE SHALL WE LAND?—TAILPIECE THE TOUCHES OF H ER H ANDS—TITLE THE TOUCHES OF H ER H ANDS—TAILPIECE O R ARELY SOFT, THE TOUCHES OF H ER H ANDS A SONG OF LONG AGO WHEN AGE C OMES ON FARMER WHIPPLE—BACHELOR—TITLE R IDIN' H OME WITH MARY FARMER WHIPPLE—BACHELOR—TAILPIECE THE R OSE—TITLE H AS SHE FORGOTTEN? BLOOMS OF MAY—TITLE O LAD AND LASS O GLEAM AND GLOOM AND WOODLAND BLOOM THE SERMON OF THE R OSE 123 125 127 129 131 132 133 135 137 139 141 146 148 151 154 156 157 158 159 161 165 167 171 177 178 183 185 186 187 191 RILEY LOVE-LYRICS 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.