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List of James Whitcomb Riley Quotes

Explore our hand-picked selection of 24 inspiring quotes by James Whitcomb Riley.

About James Whitcomb Riley

  • Born: October 7, 1849
  • Died: July 22, 1916
  • Occupation: Writer
    • O'er folded blooms on swirls of musk, the beetle booms adown the glooms and bumps along the dusk.
    Bumps Swirls Musk
    He is not dead, he is just - away.
    Memorial
    Just a wee cot-the crickets chirr-love and the smiling face of her.
    Love Justice Faces
    Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. it's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, and hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry.
    Baby Valentine Tangled
    Long about knee-deep in june, 'bout the time strewberries melts on the vine.
    Summer June Long
    Who bides his time tastes the sweet of honey in the saltiest tear; and though he fares with slowest feet joy runs to meet him drawing near.
    Running Sweet Drawing
    Think of him still as the same, i say, he is not dead, he is just - away.
    Thinking Death Of A Loved One Loved Ones
    And the sun had on a crown wrought of gilded thistledown, and a scarf of velvet vapor and a raveled rainbow gown; and his tinsel-tangled hair tossed and lost upon the air was glossier and flossier than any anywhere.
    Hair Rainbow Tangled
    The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, and the cherry-and quince-'preserves' she made! and the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, with cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! and the more we ate was the more to spare, out to old aunt mary's! ah!
    Sweet Food Aunt
    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.
    Life Design Albums
    I don't know how to tell it--but ef such a thing could be as the angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me-- i'd want to 'ccommodate 'em--all the whole-in-durin' flock-- when the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
    Angel Frost Ems
    Oh, the world's a curious compound, with its honey and its gall, with its cares and bitter crosses, but a good world after all. and a good god must have made it-leastways, that is what i say, when a hand is on my shoulder in a friendly sort of way.
    Hands Curiosity Friendly
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