A Parting Guest
1853-1916
What delightful hosts are they --
Life and Love!
Lingeringly I turn away,
This late hour, yet glad enough
They have not withheld from me
Their high hospitality.
So, with face lit with delight
And all gratitude, I stay
Yet to press their hands and say,
"Thanks. -- So fine a time! Good night."
DayPoems Poem No. 1275
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/1275.html">A Parting Guest by James Whitcomb Riley</a>
The DayPoems Poetry Collection, www.daypoems.net
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