When Old Folks they wuz young like us An' little as you an' me, - Them wuz the best times ever wuz Er ever goin' to be!
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"When Old Folks they wuz young like us..."
Exploring the themes of classic, James Whitcomb Riley delivers a powerful performance in "The Best Times"... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...
Author:James Whitcomb Riley
"When Old Folks they wuz young like us..." by James Whitcomb Riley
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"Writ in between the lines of his life-deed We trace the sacred service of a heart Answering the Divine command, in every par"
"Crowd about me, little children - Come and cluster 'round my knee While I tell a little story That happened once with me."
"O the night was dark and the night was late, And the robbers came to rob him; And they picked the locks of his palace-gate,"
"O her beautiful eyes! they are as blue as the dew On the violet's bloom when the morning is new, And the light of their love"
"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky, And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet, S"
"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"
James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) was an American poet known as the "Hoosier Poet." His dialect poems—including "Little Orphant Annie" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin"—celebrate rural Indiana life and childhood nostalgia.
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