James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley (October 7, 1849 – July 22, 1916) was an American writer, poet, and best selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the Hoosier Poet and Children's Poet for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man".
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... Riley was among the most popular and best-loved writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, known for his "uncomplicated, sentimental, and humorous" writing ... Riley was a prolific writer who "achieved mass appeal partly due to his canny sense of marketing and publicity." He published more than fifty books, mostly of poetry and humorous ... Riley is often remembered for his most famous poems, including the "The Raggedy Man" and "Little Orphant Annie" ...
... The Riley Birthplace and Museum marks where noted Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley was born and lived during his boyhood ... was built by the author's father Reuben Riley, a local attorney in 1850, and Greenfield's first mayor ... Riley was not actually born in the house, but a cabin on the site of the property (October 7, 1849) ...
... Cincinnati – Indianapolis – Chicago October 30, 1977 September 30, 1981 renamed from the James Whitcomb Riley January 8, 1982 present Empire State Express New York – Albany ... Petersburg – Roanoke – Catlettsburg January 8, 1978 September 30, 1979 James Whitcomb Riley Washington, D.C./Newport News – Charlottesville – Cincinnati ...
... James Whitcomb Riley, famed Hoosier poet, lived in the district for over two decades ... Among the noted buildings are James Ray-Buscher House home of former Indiana governor James B ... James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home the residence of James Whitcomb Riley, while he lived in the area in the last two decades of his life ...
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“a feller is a-feelin’ at his best,
With the risin’ sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest,
As he leaves the house, bare-headed, and goes out to feed the stock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder’s in the shock.”
—James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)
“the ache here in the throat,
To know that I so ill deserve the place
Her arms make for me;”
—James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)
“Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“A-list’nin’ to the witch-tales ‘at Annie tells about,
An’ the Gobble-uns ‘at gits you
Ef you
Don’t
Watch
Out!”
—James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)