 | James Whitcomb Riley - 1887 - 186 pages
...My power of place And lordly sway, — I only pray for simple grace To look my neighbor in the face Full honestly from day to day — Yield me his horny palm to hold, And PI! not pray For gold; — The tanned face, garlanded with mirth, It hath the kingliest smile on earth... | |
 | James Whitcomb Riley - 1890 - 184 pages
...My power of place And lordly sway, — I only pray for simple grace To look my neighbor in the face Full honestly from day to day — Yield me his horny...cricket's chirr, Love, and the glad sweet face of her! A ROUGH SKETCH. T CAUGHT, for a second, across the crowd — *• Just for a second, and barely that... | |
 | James Whitcomb Riley - 1891 - 178 pages
...pray for simple grace To look my neighbor in the face Full honestly from day to dayYield me his homy palm to hold, And I'll not pray For gold ;— The...cricket's chirr, Love, and the glad sweet face of her ! OUR KIND OF A MAN. THE kind of a man for you and me ! He faces the world unflinchingly, And smites,... | |
 | James Whitcomb Riley - 1897 - 178 pages
...My power of place And lordly sway, — I only pray for simple grace To look my neighbor in the face Full honestly from day to day— Yield me his horny...cricket's chirr, Love, and the glad sweet face of her t / OUR KIND OF A MAN. THE kind of a man for you and me ! He faces the world unflinchingly, And smites,... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1897 - 466 pages
...is another illustration of his tender simplicity which makes magic effects. Riley believes that — "The tanned face, garlanded with mirth, It hath the...diamonded with sweat, Hath never need of coronet." He is a genuine people's poet; and although his work suffers here and there from prolixity and suggests... | |
 | James Whitcomb Riley - 1898 - 174 pages
...I only pray for simple grace To look my neighbor in the f;/;e Full honestly from day to di y— • Yield me his horny palm to hold, And I'll not pray...cricket's chirr, Love, and the glad sweet face of her ! OUR KIND OF A MAN: THE kind of a man for you and me ! He faces the world unflinchingly, And smites,... | |
 | James Whitcomb Riley - 1898 - 208 pages
...sway,— I only pray for simple grace To look my neighbor in the face Full honestly from day to dayYield me his horny palm to hold, And I'll not pray For gold;—...cricket's chirr, Love, and the glad sweet face of her! A ROUGH SKETCH I CAUGHT, for a second, across the crowdJust for a second, and barely that— A face,... | |
 | James Whitcomb Riley - 1898 - 202 pages
...old Raggedy Man ? Raggedy ! Raggedy ! Raggedy Man ! THE RAGGEDY MAN. 4 Jean Francois Millet, 1814. The tanned face, garlanded with mirth, It hath the...diamonded with sweat, Hath never need of coronet. IKE WALTON'S PRAYER. Horace Walpole, 1717 ; William Hamilton Gibson, 1850 ; Alfred Tennyson died, 1892.... | |
 | James Whitcomb Riley - 1898 - 204 pages
...Izaak Walton, 1593 ; John Dryden, 1631. I only pray for simple grace To look my neighbor in the face Full honestly from day to day. — Yield me his horny palm to hold, — And I'll not pray For gold. IKE WALTON'S PRAYER. IO ...... When Old Jack died, it seemed to us, someway, That all the other dogs... | |
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I pray not that Men tremble at My power of place And lordly sway, — I only pray for simple grace To look my neighbor in the face Full honestly from day to day — Yield me his horny palm to hold, And I'll not pray For gold; — The tanned face, garlanded... 
