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Subject: RILEY, JAMES WHITCOMB (1849-1916)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` DIVIDED HONORS, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nature had late a strife with art
Last Line: "and riley, and his friends, shall share it."
Subject(s): Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)


JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I got to thinkin' of him - as sometimes a feller will
Subject(s): Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)


JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There must be great rejoicin' on the golden
Last Line: But joy must reign in heaven not that riley's %comin' back
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)


JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY (FROM A WESTERNER'S POINT OF VIEW), by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: No matter what you call it
Last Line: Like our own whitcomb riley.
Subject(s): Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)


MEMORY'S PAGEANT; IN MEMORY OF JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, by EVA D. THRASHER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Mystical melody in the air
Last Line: In little lockerbie street.
Subject(s): Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)


ON HEARING JAMES W. RILEY READ; FROM A KENTUCKY STANDPOINT, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER SR.    Poem Text                    
First Line: To tell the truth, each piece he read
Last Line: But just come out and tell him so.
Subject(s): Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)


TO JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY; ON HIS 'BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN', by HENRY VAN DYKE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yours is a garden of old-fashioned flowers
Last Line: You keep close to the human heart.
Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)