Extremes
A little boy once played so loud
That the thunder, up in a thundercloud,
Said, “Since I can’t be heard, why then
I’ll never, never thunder again!”
And a little girl once kept so still
That she heard a fly on the window sill
Whisper and say to a ladybird -
“She’s the stillest child I ever heard!”
by James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley was born on 7 October 1849 in a two-room cabin in Greenfield, Indiana, United States of America. He became a writer and a poet. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that he wrote, the majority are in dialect. His best-known works include “Little Orphant Annie” and “The Raggedy Man.” He served on the staff of the “Indianapolis Journal” newspaper. James Whitcomb Riley passed on at 66 years of age on 22 July 1916 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America.
A little boy once played so loud
That the thunder, up in a thundercloud,
Said, “Since I can’t be heard, why then
I’ll never, never thunder again!”
And a little girl once kept so still
That she heard a fly on the window sill
Whisper and say to a ladybird -
“She’s the stillest child I ever heard!”
by James Whitcomb Riley
James Whitcomb Riley was born on 7 October 1849 in a two-room cabin in Greenfield, Indiana, United States of America. He became a writer and a poet. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that he wrote, the majority are in dialect. His best-known works include “Little Orphant Annie” and “The Raggedy Man.” He served on the staff of the “Indianapolis Journal” newspaper. James Whitcomb Riley passed on at 66 years of age on 22 July 1916 in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America.
