God Bless Us Every One
Chapter 1 of 12 God Bless Us Everyone - Read by BK
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- Running time
- 13 min
- Language
- English
- Readers
- Brian Lornie, Bruce Kachuk, David Lawrence, Garth Burton, Greg Giordano and 7 others
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About this recording
James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the "Hoosier Poet" and "Children's Poet" for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect. His famous works include "Little Orphant Annie" and "The Raggedy Man". (Summary from Wikipedia)This poem is taken from Riley's CHRISTMAS - Its origin, celebration and significance as releated in prose and poetry. Published in 1912.