Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ME AND MARY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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First Line: All my feelin's in the spring
Last Line: "no more ""me and mary!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Birds; Love; Spring


ALL my feelin's in the Spring
Gits so blame contrary,
I can't think of anything
Only me and Mary!
"Me and Mary!" all the time,
"Me and Mary!" like a rhyme,
Keeps a-dingin' on till I'm
Sick o' "Me and Mary!"

"Me and Mary! Ef us two
Only was together --
Playin' like we used to do
In the Aprile weather!"
All the night and all the day
I keep wishin' thataway
Till I'm gittin' old and gray
Jes' on "Me and Mary!"

Muddy yit along the pike
Sence the Winter's freezin',
And the orchard's back'ard-like
Bloomin' out this season;
Only heerd one bluebird yit --
Nary robin ner tomtit;
What's the how and why of it?
'Spect it's "Me and Mary!"

Me and Mary liked the birds --
That is, Mary sort o'
Liked 'em first, and afterwards,
W'y, I thought I'd ort 'o.
And them birds -- ef Mary stood
Right here with me, like she should --
They'd be singin', them birds would,
All fer me and Mary.

Birds er not, I'm hopin' some
I can git to plowin'!
Ef the sun'll only come,
And the Lord allowin',
Guess to-morry I'll turn in
And git down to work ag'in;
This here loaferin' won't win,
Not fer me and Mary!

Fer a man that loves, like me,
And 's afeard to name it,
Till some other feller, he
Gits the girl -- dad-shame-it!
Wet er dry, er cloud er sun --
Winter gone er jes' begun --
Outdoor work fer me er none,
No more "Me and Mary!"





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