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The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley

in ten volumes
Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)

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VOLUME I
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VOLUME II
  
T. C. PHILIPS
  
A DREAM UNFINISHED
  
A CHILD'S HOME—LONG AGO
  
[For the Song's sake; even so]
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THE FLYING ISLANDS OF THE NIGHT
  
WHEN I DO MOCK
  
THE HIGHEST GOOD
  
EZRA HOUSE
  
THE VISION OF RABBI BEN ISAAC
  
DAN PAINE
  
OLD HEC'S IDOLATRY
  
A MOTHER-SONG
  
THE LOST PATH
  
MY BRIDE THAT IS TO BE
  
LULLABY
  
THE ROMAUNT OF KING MORDAMEER
  
DEARTH
  
THE SONG I NEVER SING
  
UNSPOKEN
  
THANKSGIVING DAY AT HUNCHLEY'S
  
APART
  
TOIL
  
HIS ROOM
  
TO LEONAINIE
  
THE SHOWER
  
YE SCHOLAR
  
DEATH IS DEAD
  
TOM JOHNSON'S QUIT
  
THE LITTLE DEAD MAN
  
OLD-FASHIONED ROSES
  
THE EMPTY SONG
  
A ROSE IN OCTOBER
  
ROMANCIN'
  
THE LITTLE OLD POEM THAT NOBODY READS
  
A SLEEPING BEAUTY
  
LEEDLE DUTCH BABY
  
LINES
  
FRIEND OF A WAYWARD HOUR
  
LINES
  
PAN
  
WHEN OUR BABY DIED
  
A FULL HARVEST
  
MY BACHELOR CHUM
  
TOMMY SMITH
  
THE LAUGHTER OF THE RAIN
  
ETERNITY
  
LAST WORDS
  
AT BAY
  
A WORN-OUT PENCIL
  
GOD BLESS US EVERY ONE
  
THE TREE-TOAD
  
LAUGHING SONG
  
THE WITCH OF ERKMURDEN
  
THE BALLAD OF SMILES AND TEARS
  
THIS MAN JONES
  
WAIT
  
LELLOINE
  
A DREAM OF AUTUMN
  
SINCE MY MOTHER DIED
  
BELLS JANGLED
  
DUSK SONG—THE BEETLE
  
SLEEP
  
MARTHY ELLEN
  
THE LITTLE TOWN O' TAILHOLT
  
WHERE SHALL WE LAND
  
HOPE
  
THE LITTLE TINY KICKSHAW
  
DEATH
  
TO THE WINE-GOD MERLUS
  
THE GINOINE AR-TICKLE
  
A BRIDE
  
STANZAS FOR A NEW SONG
  
LINES TO AN ONSETTLED YOUNG MAN
  
PLANTATION HYMN
  
LAWYER AND CHILD
  
THE LOST KISS
  
MICHAEL FLYNN AND THE BABY
  
ON A SPLENDUD MATCH
  
THE SINGER
  
GUINEVERE
  
THE WEREWIFE
  
THE BAN
  
AN IDIOT
  
AN ORDER FOR A SONG
  
THE CONQUEROR
  
AFTER DEATH
  
THE MAD LOVER
  
TO ROBERT BURNS
  
HER VALENTINE
  
SONGS TUNELESS
  
SISTER JONES'S CONFESSION
  
THE DEAD JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN
  
SLEEP
  
ONE ANGEL
  
LAUGHTER
  
AN INVOCATION
  
FROM BELOW
  
GLAMOUR
  
SILENCE
  
PUCK
  
A MORTUL PRAYER
  
A ROUGH SKETCH
  
GRANDFATHERS SQUEERS
  
MY LADDIE WI' THE BASHFU' GRACE
  
A TRESS OF HAIR
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VOLUME III
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VOLUME IV
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VOLUME V
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VOLUME VI
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VOLUME VII
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VOLUME VIII
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VOLUME IX

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1603

THE BEE-BAG

When I was ist a Brownie—a weenty-teenty Brownie—
Long afore I got to be like Childerns is to-day,—
My good old Brownie granny gimme sweeter thing 'an can'y—
An' 'at's my little bee-bag the Fairies stold away!
O my little bee-bag—
My little funny bee-bag—
My little honey bee-bag
The Fairies stold away!
One time when I bin swung in wiv annuver Brownie young-un
An' lef' sleepin' in a pea-pod while our parunts went to play,
I waked up ist a-cryin' an' a-sobbin' an' a-sighin'
Fer my little funny bee-bag the Fairies stold away!
O my little bee-bag—
My little funny bee-bag—
My little honey bee-bag
The Fairies stold away!
1604

It's awful much bewilder'n', but 'at's why I'm a Childern,
Ner goin' to git to be no more a Brownie sence that day!
My parunts, so imprudent, lef' me sleepin' when they shouldn't!
An' I want my little bee-bag the Fairies stold away!
O my little bee-bag—
My little funny bee-bag—
My little honey bee-bag
The Fairies stold away!
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