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6 Quotes for 'James Whitcomb Riley' in the Database.
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James Whitcomb Riley Quotes
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O, it sets my heart a clickin' like the tickin' of a clock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
Topic: Autumn
Source: When the Frost is on the Punkin
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O'er folded blooms
On swirls of musk,
The beetle booms adown the glooms
And bumps along the dusk.
Topic: Beetles
Source: The Beetle
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God bless us every one, prayed Tiny Tim,
Crippled and dwarfed of body yet so tall
Of soul, we tiptoe earth to look on him,
High towering over all.
Topic: Blessings
Source: God Bless Us Every One
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And the humming-bird that hung
Like a jewel up among
The tilted honeysuckle horns
They mesmerized and swung
In the palpitating air,
Drowsed with odors strange and rare.
And, with whispered laughter, slipped away
And let him hanging there.
Topic: Hummingbirds
Source: The South Wind and the Sun
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Say good-bye er howdy-do--
What's the odds betwixt the two?
Comin'--goin'--every day--
Best friends first to go away--
Grasp of hands you'd ruther hold
Than their weight in solid gold,
Slips their grip while greetin' you,--
Say good-bye er howdy-do?
Topic: Parting
Source: Good-Bye er Howdy-Do
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An' all us other children, when the supper things is done,
We set around the kitchen fire an' has the mostest fun
A-list'nin' to the witch tales 'at Annie tells about
An' the gobble-uns 'at gits you
Ef you
Don't
Watch
Out!
Topic: Story Telling
Source: Little Orphant Annie
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