Afterwhiles - Softcover

James Whitcomb Riley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425513344 ISBN 13: 9781425513344

Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library, 2006

Synopsis

Where are they the A fterwhiles Luring us the lengthening miles Of our lives? IV here is the dawn With the dew across the lawn Stroked with eager feet the far Way the hills and valleys are? Where the sun that smites the frown Of the eastward-gaer down? Where the rifted wreathes of mist Oer us, tinged with amethyst, Round the mountains steep defies? Where are all the afterwhiles? Afterwhile and we will go Thither, yon, and to and fro From the stifling city-streets To the countrys cool retreats From the riot to the rest Where hearts beat the placidest; A fterwhile, and we will fall Under breezy trees, and loll In the shade, with thirsty sight Drinking deep the blue delight Of the skies that will beguile Us as children afterwhile.
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James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) was an American poet, born in Greenfield, Indiana. At the age of 16 he left school and joined a group of itinerant sign painters. Subsequently he acted in a patent-medicine show and worked for a newspaper. From 1877 to 1885 he was a regular contributor of verse to the Indianapolis Journal under the pen name of Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone. Some of the poems were collected in The Old Swimmin' Hole and 'Leven More Poems (1883), a volume that achieved great popularity. His best-known poems include Little Orphant Annie, The Raggedy Man, and When the Frost Is on the Punkin. Riley's popularity derived mainly from his quaint use of Hoosier dialect, his cheerful and whimsical sense of humor, and his intimate understanding of life in the rural Midwest. His other works include Rhymes of Childhood (1890) and Poems Here at Home (1893).

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• Publisher: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1425513344
• ISBN 13: 9781425513344
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172