God Bless Us Every One

Author(s): James Whitcomb Riley

Genre(s): Multi-version (weekly And Fortnightly Poetry)

Narrators: Bruce Kachuk, Brian Lornie, David Lawrence, Newgatenovelist, Garth Burton, Greg Giordano, Ian King, Lee Ann Howlett, Leonard Wilson, Maria Kasper, SkyAlbatross, Simon Donohoe

Number of Chapters: 12

Length: 13 minutes

Language: English

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.