1136. The Way the Baby Woke by James Whitcomb Riley. Stedman, Edmund Clarence, ed. 1900. An American Anthology, 1787-1900

Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.

1136. The Way the Baby Woke

By James Whitcomb Riley


AND this is the way the baby woke:
As when in deepest drops of dew
The shine and shadows sink and soak,
The sweet eyes glimmered through and through;
And eddyings and dimples broke	5
About the lips, and no one knew
Or could divine the words they spoke,—
And this is the way the baby woke.