John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| James Whitcomb Riley. (1849–1916) |
| 8070 |
| The ripest peach is highest on the tree. |
| The ripest Peach. |
| 8071 |
| O’er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk. |
| The Beetle. |
| 8072 |
| One naked star has waded through The purple shadows of the night, And faltering as falls the dew It drips its misty light. |
| The Beetle. |
| 8073 |
| An’ the Gobble-uns ’ll git you Ef you don’t watch out. |
| Little Orphant Annie. |
| Francis William Bourdillon. (1852– ?) |
| 8074 |
| The Night has a thousand eyes, And the Day but one; Yet the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. The mind has a thousand eyes, And the heart but one; Yet the light of a whole life dies When love is done. |
| Light. |
| Edwin Markham. (1852–1940) |
| 8075 |
| The crest and crowning of all good, Life’s final star, is Brotherhood. |
| Brotherhood. |
| 8076 |
| Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. |
| The Man with the Hoe. |