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Quotes from Old-Fashioned Roses — James Whitcomb Riley

1849–1916 United States

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3 quotes

O’er folded blooms,
On swirls of musk,
The beetle booms adown the glooms
And bumps along the dusk.

Old-Fashioned Roses (1889)

One naked star has waded through
The purple shadows of the night,
And faltering as falls the dew
It drips its misty light.

Old-Fashioned Roses (1889)

An’ the Gobble-uns ’ll git you
Ef you
Don’t
Watch
Out!

Old-Fashioned Roses (1889)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Whitcomb Riley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.