Green Fields and Running Brooks is a collection of beautiful poetry by the explorative and effusive James Whitcomb Riley. Riley's dialect works and children's poetry will charm you. Readers everywhere will fall in love with his works over and over again. Excerpt: " Ho! green fields and running brooks! Knotted strings and fishing hooks Of the truant, stealing down Weedy backways of the town. Where the sunshine overlooks, By green fields and running brooks, All intruding guests of chance With a golden tolerance"