James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley (Greenfield, Indiana, October 7, 1849 - July 22, 1916) was an American writer and poet. Known as the "Hoosier Poet" and the "Children's Poets," he started his career in 1875 writing newspaper verse in Indiana dialect for the Indianapolis Journal.

Quotes

• The ripest peach is highest on the tree.
  • "The Ripest Peach", in Afterwhiles (Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1888), p. 71.

Old-Fashioned Roses (1889)

Old-Fashioned Roses (Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill Co., 1889)

• One naked star has waded through
  The purple shadows of the night,
  And faltering as falls the dew
  It drips its misty light.
  • "The Beetle", p. 76.

• O’er folded blooms,
  On swirls of musk,
  The beetle booms adown the glooms
  And bumps along the dusk.
  • "The Beetle", p. 77.

• An’ the Gobble-uns ’ll git you
   Ef you
    Don’t
     Watch
      Out!
  • "Little Orphant Annie', p. 112.

External links

• Works by James Whitcomb Riley at Project Gutenberg
• Guide to the Riley Collections at the Lilly Library - Indiana University, Bloomington.
• Livin' the Life of Riley: The James Whitcomb Riley Digital Collection
• Riley, or Poe? - A quiz to tell the difference between their poems
• Cambridge History of English and American Literature vol. 17: Later National poets
• Songs O' Cheer – collection of humorous poems (with art) from the book published in 1883.
• James Whitcomb Riley Recordings - 17 recordings from 1912 of James Whitcomb Riley reading his poems