When Bess gave her Dollies a Tea, said she,--
'It's unpolite, when they's Company,
To say you've drinked _two_ cups, you see,--
But say you've drinked _a couple_ of tea.'

(C) James Whitcomb Riley
04/07/2015


Best Poems of James Whitcomb Riley

• Extremes
• A Good Man
• The Nine Little Goblins
• A Life Lesson
• When Evening Shadows Fall
• Dead Leaves
• Company Manners
• Thomas The Pretender
• A Mother-song
• Down Around The River
• In The Evening
• The Rival
• Old Indiany. Intended For A Dinner Of The Indiana Society Of Chicago
• Right Here At Home
• When June Is Here
• Our Boyhood Haunts
• The Rapture Of The Year
• A Liz Town Humorist
• Lines For An Album
• Anselmo