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INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG

WORKS OF

JAMES WHITCOMB
RILEY

Compiled by David Widger

CONTENTS

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##  RILEY
FARM-RHYMES

##
A
CHILD-WORLD

##
RILEY
CHILD-RHYMES

##
PIPES
O'PAN AT ZEKESBURY

GREEN FIELDS

##  THE
BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN

##  AFTERWHILES

##
RILEY
SONGS OF HOME

##
RILEY
LOVE-LYRICS

A
DEFECTIVE SANTA CLAUS

##
SONGS
OF FRIENDSHIP

AN OLD
SWEETHEART OF MINE

##
NYE
AND RILEY'S WIT AND HUMOR

##
THE
OLD SOLDIERS STORY

RUBAIYAT
OF DOC SIFERS

##
NEIGHBORLY
POEMS, DIALECT SKETCHES

LITTLE
ORPHAN ANNIE

HOME
AGAIN WITH ME

TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES

RILEY FARM-RHYMES

By James Whitcomb Riley

CONTENTS

TO THE GOOD OLD-FASHIONED PEOPLE
RILEY FARM-RHYMES
THE ORCHARD LANDS OF LONG AGO
WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN
WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK IN THE TREES
WET-WEATHER TALK
THE BROOK-SONG
THOUGHTS FER THE DISCURAGED FARMER
"MYLO JONES'S WIFE"
HOW JOHN QUIT THE FARM
A CANARY AT THE FARM
WHERE THE CHILDREN USED TO PLAY
GRIGGSBY'S STATION
KNEE-DEEP IN JUNE
SEPTEMBER DARK
THE CLOVER
OLD OCTOBER
OLD-FASHIONED ROSES
A COUNTRY PATHWAY
WORTERMELON TIME
UP AND DOWN OLD BRANDYWINE
WHEN EARLY MARCH SEEMS MIDDLE MAY
A TALE OF THE AIRLY DAYS
OLD MAN'S NURSERY RHYME
JUNE
THE TREE-TOAD
A SONG OF LONG AGO
OLD WINTERS ON THE FARM
ROMANCIN'

A CHILD-WORLD

James Whitcomb Riley

CONTENTS

A CHILD-WORLD
THE CHILD-WORLD
THE OLD-HOME FOLKS
ALMON KEEFER
NOEY BIXLER
"A NOTED TRAVELER"
A PROSPECTIVE VISIT
AT NOEY'S HOUSE
"THAT LITTLE DOG"
THE LOEHRS AND THE HAMMONDS
THE HIRED MAN AND FLORETTY
THE EVENING COMPANY
MAYMIE'S STORY OF RED RIDING HOOD
LIMITATIONS OF GENIUS
MR. HAMMOND'S PARABLE
FLORETTY'S MUSICAL CONTRIBUTION
BUD'S FAIRY-TALE
A DELICIOUS INTERRUPTION
NOEY'S NIGHT-PIECE
COUSIN RUFUS' STORY
BEWILDERING EMOTIONS
THE BEAR-STORY
THE PATHOS OF APPLAUSE
TOLD BY "THE NOTED TRAVELER"
HEAT-LIGHTNING
UNCLE MART'S POEM
"LITTLE JACK JANITOR"

RILEY CHILD-RHYMES

By James Whitcomb Riley

CONTENTS

RILEY CHILD-RHYMES
LITTLE ORPHANT ANNIE
THE RAGGEDY MAN
CURLY LOCKS
THE FUNNY LITTLE FELLOW
THE HAPPY LITTLE CRIPPLE
THE RIDER OF THE KNEE
DOWN AROUND THE RIVER
AT AUNTY'S HOUSE
THE DAYS GONE BY
THE BUMBLEBEE
THE BOY LIVES ON OUR FARM
THE SQUIRTGUN UNCLE MAKED ME
THE OLD TRAMP
OLD AUNT MARY'S
WINTER FANCIES
THE RUNAWAY BOY
THE LITTLE COAT
AN IMPETUOUS RESOLVE
WHO SANTY-CLAUS WUZ
THE NINE LITTLE GOBLINS
TIME OF CLEARER TWITTERINGS
THE CIRCUS-DAY PARADE
THE LUGUBRIOUS WHING-WHANG
WAITIN' FER THE CAT TO DIE
NAUGHTY CLAUDE
THE SOUTH WIND AND THE SUN
THE JOLLY MILLER
OUR HIRED GIRL
THE BOYS' CANDIDATE
THE PET COON
THE OLD HAY-MOW
ON THE SUNNY SIDE
A SUDDEN SHOWER
GRANDFATHER SQUEERS
THE PIXY PEOPLE
A LIFE-LESSON
A HOME-MADE FAIRY-TALE
THE BEAR STORY
ENVOY

PIPES O' PAN AT ZEKESBURY

By James Whitcomb Riley

1895

CONTENTS

PIPES O' PAN AT ZEKESBURY
AT ZEKESBURY.
DOWN AROUND THE RIVER POEMS
DOWN AROUND THE RIVER.
KNEELING WITH HERRICK.
ROMANCIN'.
HAS SHE FORGOTTEN.
A' OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG.
THE LOST PATH.
THE LITTLE TINY KICKSHAW.
HIS MOTHER.
KISSING THE ROD.
HOW IT HAPPENED.
BABYHOOD.
THE DAYS GONE BY.
MRS. MILLER
RHYMES OF RAINY DAYS
THE TREE-TOAD.
A WORN-OUT PENCIL.
THE STEPMOTHER.
THE RAIN.
THE LEGEND GLORIFIED.
WANT TO BE WHUR MOTHER IS.
OLD MAN'S NURSERY RHYME.
THREE DEAD FRIENDS.
IN BOHEMIA.
IN THE DARK.
WET WEATHER TALK.
WHERE SHALL WE LAND.
AN OLD SETTLER'S STORY
SWEET-KNOT AND GALAMUS
AN OLD SWEETHEART.
MARTHY ELLEN.
MOON-DROWNED.
LONG AFORE HE KNOWED WHO SANTY-CLAUS WUZ.
DEAR HANDS.
THIS MAN JONES.
TO MY GOOD MASTER.
WHEN THE GREEN GITS BACK IN THE TREES.
AT BROAD RIPPLE.
WHEN OLD JACK DIED.
DOC SIFERS.
AT NOON—AND MIDNIGHT.
A WILD IRISHMAN.
RAGWEED AND FENNEL
WHEN MY DREAMS COME TRUE.
A DOS'T O' BLUES.
THE BAT.
THE WAY IT WUZ.
THE DRUM.
TOM JOHNSON'S QUIT.
LULLABY.
IN THE SOUTH.
THE OLD HOME BY THE MILL.
A LEAVE-TAKING.
WAIT FOR THE MORNING.
WHEN JUNE IS HERE.
THE GILDED ROLL.
A BACKWARD LOOK.

THE BOOK OF
JOYOUS CHILDREN

By James Whitcomb Riley

Illustrated by J.W. VAWTER

CONTENTS

PROEM

THE
BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN

AN
IMPROMPTU FAIRY-TALE

DREAM-MARCH

ELMER
BROWN

NO
BOY KNOWS

WHEN
WE FIRST PLAYED "SHOW"

A
DIVERTED TRAGEDY

THE
RAMBO-TREE

FIND
THE FAVORITE

THE
BOY PATRIOT

EXTREMES

INTELLECTUAL
LIMITATIONS

A
MASQUE OF THE SEASONS

THOMAS
THE PRETENDER

LITTLE
DICK AND THE CLOCK

[x] FOOL-YOUNGENS

THE
KATYDIDS

BILLY
AND HIS DRUM

THE
NOBLE OLD ELM

THE
PENALTY OF GENIUS

EVENSONG

THE
TWINS

THE
LITTLE LADY

"COMPANY
MANNERS"

IN
FERVENT PRAISE OF PICNICS

THE
GOOD, OLD-FASHIONED PEOPLE

THE
BEST TIMES

"HIK-TEE-DIK!"

A
CHRISTMAS MEMORY

"OLD
BOB WHITE"

A SESSION WITH UNCLE SIDNEY:

I
ONE OF HIS ANIMAL STORIES

II
UNCLE BRIGHTENS UP

III
SINGS A "WINKY-TOODEN" SONG

IV
AND MAKES NURSERY RHYMES

1
THE DINERS IN THE KITCHEN

2
THE IMPERIOUS ANGLER

3
THE GATHERING OF THE CLANS

4
"IT"

5
THE DARING PRINCE

[xi]
A
DUBIOUS "OLD KRISS"

A
SONG OF SINGING

THE
JAYBIRD

A
BEAR FAMILY

SOME SONGS AFTER MASTER-SINGERS:

I
SONG

II
TO THE CHILD JULIA

III
THE DOLLY'S MOTHER

IV
WIND OF THE SEA

V
SUBTLETY

VI
BORN TO THE PURPLE

OLD
MAN WHISKERY-WHEE-KUM-WHEEZE

LITTLE-GIRL-TWO-LITTLE-GIRLS

A
GUSTATORY ACHIEVEMENT

CLIMATIC
SORCERY

A
PARENT REPRIMANDED

THE
TREASURE OF THE WISE MAN

FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

NOT
IN CLASSIC LOOK, BUT RICH IN THE CHILD-SAGAS OF THE KITCHEN

KNEEL,
ALL GLOWING, TO THE COOL SPRING

NO
BOY KNOWS WHEN HE GOES TO SLEEP

JAMESY
ON THE SLACK-ROPE

ACROSS
THE ORCHARD

WHILE
ALL THE ARMY, FOLLOWING, IN CHORUS CHEERS AND SINGS

WHERE
IT GOES WHEN THE FIRE GOES OUT?

THE
FAIRY QUEEN OF THE SEASONS

PORE
PA! PORE PA!

SQUINT'
OUR EYES AN' LAUGH' AGAIN

HE'S
A-MARCHIN' ROUND THE ROOM

THE
OLD TREE SAYS HE'S ALL OUR TREE

THEREFORE
READ NO LONGER

SHE'S
BUT A RACING SCHOOL-GIRL

[xiv]
THEY
WAS GOD'S PEOPLE

THEM
WUZ THE BEST TIMES EVER WUZ

HE'S
GO' HITCH UP, CHRIS'MUS-DAY, AN' COME TAKE ME BACK AGAIN

WHEN
WE DROVE TO HARMONY

A
BIG, HOLLOW, OLD OAK-TREE, WHICH HAD BEEN BLOWN DOWN BY A STORM

THE
YOUNG FOXES IN IT, ON THE HEARTH BESIDE HER

AN'
ALL BE POETS AN' ALL RECITE

ALONG
THE BRINK OF WILD BROOK-WAYS

I
LIKE TO WATCH HIM

WHILE
KATE PICKS BY, YET LOOKS NOT THERE

LEND
ME THE BREATH OF A FRESHENING GALE

BOW
TO ME IN THE WINDER THERE

OUR
"OLD-KRISS"-MILKMAN

THE
CHILDISH DREAMS IN HIS WISE OLD HEAD

AFTERWHILES

By James Whitcomb Riley

CONTENTS

PROEM (AKA "Afterwhiles")
Herr Weiser
The Beautiful City
Lockerbie Street
Das Krist Kindel
Anselmo
A Home-Made Fairy Tale
The South Wind and the Sun
The Lost Kiss
The Sphinx
If I knew What Poets Know
Ike Walton's Prayer
A Rough Sketch
Our Kind of a Man
The Harper
Old Aunt Mary's
Illileo
The King
A Bride
The Dead Lover
A Song
When Bessie Died
The Shower
A Life Lesson
A Scrawl
Away
Who Bides His Time
From the Headboard of a Grave in Paraguay
Laughter Holding Both His Sides
Fame
The Ripest Peach
A Fruit Piece
Their Sweet Sorrow
John McKeen
Out of Nazareth
September Dark
We To Sigh Instead of Sing
The Blossoms on the Trees
Last Night— And This
A Discouraging Model
Back From a Two-years' Sentence
The Wandering Jew
Becalmed
To Santa Claus
Where the Children used to Play
A Glimpse of Pan
SONNETS
Pan
Dusk
June
Silence
Sleep
Her Hair
Dearth
A Voice From the Farm
The Serenade
Art and Love
Longfellow
Indiana
Time
Grant
IN DIALECT
Old Fashioned Roses
Griggsby's Station
Knee Deep in June
When The Hearse Comes Back
A Canary At the Farm
A Liz Town Humorist
Kingry's Mill
Joney
Like His Mother Used To Make
The Train Misser
Granny
Old October
Jim
To Robert Burns
A New Year's Time at Willards's
The Town Karnteel
Regardin' Terry Hut
Leedle Dutch Baby
Down On Wriggle Crick
When De Folks Is Gone
The Little Town O' Tailholt
Little Orphant Annie

SONGS OF HOME

By James Whitcomb Riley

With Pictures By Will Vawter

CONTENTS

AS
CREATED

56

AS
MY UNCLE USED TO SAY

126

AT
SEA

160

BACKWARD
LOOK, A

155

BEST
IS GOOD ENOUGH, THE

123

BOYS,
THE

104

"BRAVE
REFRAIN, A"

113

DREAMER,
SAY

61

FEEL
IN THE CHRIS'MAS AIR

52

FOR
YOU

50

GOOD
MAN, A

132

HER
BEAUTIFUL HANDS

189

HIS
ROOM

38

HONEY
DRIPPING FROM THE COMB

125

"HOW
DID YOU REST, LAST NIGHT?"

94

IN
THE EVENING

115

IT'S
GOT TO BE

107

JACK-IN-THE-BOX | 100
JIM | 117

JOHN
MCKEEN

165

JUST
TO BE GOOD

26

KNEELING
WITH HERRICK

138

LAUGHTER
HOLDING BOTH HIS SIDES

81

MULBERRY
TREE, THE

46

MY
DANCIN' DAYS IS OVER

184

MY
FRIEND

29

NATURAL
PERVERSITIES

70

NOT
ALWAYS GLAD WHEN WE SMILE

36

OLD
DAYS, THE

135

OLD
GUITAR, THE

161

OLD
TRUNDLE-BED, THE

64

OUR
BOYHOOD HAUNTS

182

OUR
KIND OF A MAN

92

OUR
OWN

63

"OUT
OF REACH?"

112

OUT
OF THE HITHERWHERE

98

PLAINT
HUMAN, THE

43

QUEST,
THE

44

RAINY
MORNING, THE

141

REACH
YOUR HAND TO ME

143

SCRAWL,
A

75

SONG
OF PARTING

90

SONG
OF YESTERDAY, THE

82

SPRING
SONG AND A LATER, A

137

"THEM
OLD CHEERY WORDS"

172

THINKIN'
BACK

31

THROUGH
SLEEPY-LAND

170

TO
MY OLD FRIEND, WILLIAM LEACHMAN

145

TO
THE JUDGE

177

WE
MUST BELIEVE

130

WE
MUST GET HOME

19

WHERE-AWAY | 57

WHO
BIDES HIS TIME

68

WRITIN'
BACK TO THE HOME-FOLKS

76

RILEY LOVE-LYRICS

By James Whitcomb Riley

With Life Pictures By William B. Dyer

CONTENTS

| PAGE
Blooms of May | 185
Discouraging Model, A | 133
"Dream" | 46
Farmer Whipple—Bachelor | 167
Has She Forgotten? | 181
He and I | 83
He Called Her In | 50
Her Beautiful Eyes | 60
Her Hair | 128
Her Face and Brow | 63
Her Waiting Face | 71
Home at Night | 122
How it Happened | 95
Ike Walton's Prayer | 107
Illileo | 111
Judith | 79
Last Night and This | 131
Leonainie | 68
Let Us Forget | 64
Lost Path, The | 87
My Bride That Is To Be | 90
My Mary | 117
Nothin' to Say | 103
Old Played-out Song, A' | 31
Old Sweetheart of Mine, An | 23
Old Year and the New, The | 72
Out-worn Sappho, An | 37
Passing of a Heart, The | 44
Rival, The | 148
Rose, The | 178
Sermon of the Rose, The | 189
Song of Long Ago, A | 160
Suspense | 136
Their Sweet Sorrow | 76
To Hear Her Sing | 146
Tom Van Arden | 139
Touches of Her Hands, The | 157
Variation, A | 151
Very Youthful Affair, A | 36
When Age Comes On | 164
When Lide Married Him | 125
When My Dreams Come True | 99
When She Comes Home | 67
Where Shall We Land | 154
Wife-Blesséd, The | 115

ILLUSTRATIONS

| PAGE
Love-Lyrics | Frontispiece
Illustrations—Tailpiece | xx
An Old Sweetheart of Mine | 23
And I Light My Pipe in Silence | 24
The Voices of My Children | 25
The Pink Sunbonnet | 26
When First I Kissed Her | 27
(untitled image) | 29
My Wife is Standing There | 30
A' Old Played-Out Song | 33
A' Old Played-Out Song—Tailpiece | 35
A Very Youthful Affair | 36
An Out-worn Sappho | 41
An Out-worn Sappho—Tailpiece | 43
The Passing of a Heart—Title | 44
The Passing of a Heart—Tailpiece | 45
"Dream" | 47
"Dream"—Tailpiece | 49
He Called Her In—Title | 50
A Dark and Eerie Child | 51
When She First Came to Me | 57
He Called Her In—Tailpiece | 59
Her Beautiful Eyes | 61
Her Face and Brow | 63
Let Us Forget—Title | 64
Our Worn Eyes are Wet | 65
When She Comes Home | 67
Leonainie—Title | 68
Leonainie—Tailpiece | 70
Her Waiting Face | 71
The Old Year and the New—Title | 72
I Saw the Old Year End | 73
Their Sweet Sorrow | 77
Judith | 79
O, Her Eyes are Amber-fine | 81
He and I | 85
The Lost Path—Title | 87
The Lost Path | 89
Madonna-like and Glorified | 91
How it Happened | 97
When My Dreams Come True | 101
Nothin' to Say | 105
Ike Walton's Prayer—Title | 107
Ike Walton's Prayer—Tailpiece | 110
Illileo | 113
Wife-Blesséd, The | 115
The Auld Trysting-Tree | 119
My Mary—Tailpiece | 121
Home at Night | 123
When Lide Married Him—Title | 125
When Lide Married Him—Tailpiece | 127
Her Hair | 129
Last Night and This—Title | 131
Last Night and This—Tailpiece | 132
A Discouraging Model—Title | 133
A Cameo Face | 135
Suspense | 137
Tom Van Arden—Title | 139
Tom Van Arden | 141
To Hear Her Sing | 146
The Rival | 148
A Variation—Title | 151
Where Shall We Land?—Title | 154
Where Shall We Land?—Tailpiece | 156
The Touches of Her Hands—Title | 157
The Touches of Her Hands—Tailpiece | 158
O Rarely Soft, the Touches of Her Hands | 159
A Song of Long Ago | 161
When Age Comes On | 165
Farmer Whipple—Bachelor—Title | 167
Ridin' Home with Mary | 171
Farmer Whipple—Bachelor—Tailpiece | 177
The Rose—Title | 178
Has She Forgotten? | 183
Blooms of May—Title | 185
O Lad and Lass | 186
O Gleam and Gloom and Woodland Bloom | 187
The Sermon of the Rose | 191

RILEY SONGS OF FRIENDSHIP

By James Whitcomb Riley

With Pictures By Will Vawter

CONTENTS

ABE
MARTIN

142

AMERICA'S
THANKSGIVING

182

ANCIENT
PRINTERMAN, THE

101

ART
AND POETRY

78

BACK
FROM TOWN

23

BE
OUR FORTUNES AS THEY MAY

34

BECAUSE | 152

CHRISTMAS
GREETING

141

DAN
O'SULLIVAN

132

DEAD
JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN, THE

180

DOWN
TO THE CAPITAL

80

FRIEND
OF A WAYWARD HOUR

46

GOOD-BY
ER HOWDY-DO

58

HER
VALENTINE

140

HERR
WEISER

153

HOBO
VOLUNTARY, A

25

I
SMOKE MY PIPE

36

IN
THE AFTERNOON

148

IN
THE HEART OF JUNE

120

JAMES
B MAYNARD

100

LETTER
TO A FRIEND, A

52

"LITTLE
MAN IN THE TINSHOP, THE"

61

LITTLE
OLD POEM THAT NOBODY READS, THE

146

MOTHER-SONG,
A

158

MY
BACHELOR CHUM

74

MY
FRIEND

126

MY
HENRY

48

MY
JOLLY FRIEND'S SECRET

114

MY
OLD FRIEND

134

OLD
BAND, THE

121

OLD
CHUMS

89

OLD-FASHIONED
BIBLE, THE

54

OLD
JOHN HENRY

136

OLD
INDIANY

185

OLD
MAN, THE

92

OLD
MAN AND JIM, THE

105

OLD
SCHOOL-CHUM, THE

112

OUR
OLD FRIEND NEVERFAIL

72

POET'S
LOVE FOR THE CHILDREN, THE

42

REACH
YOUR HAND TO ME

176

SCOTTY | 90

SONG
BY UNCLE SIDNEY, A

41

STEPMOTHER,
THE

162

THAT
NIGHT

168

TO
ALMON KEEPER

170

TO
THE QUIET OBSERVER

174

TOM
VAN ARDEN

68

TOMMY
SMITH

66

TRAVELING
MAN, THE

128

UNCLE
SIDNEY TO MARCELLUS

40

WHAT
"OLD SANTA" OVERHEARD

160

WHEN
OLD JACK DIED

163

WHEN
WE THREE MEET

60

ILLUSTRATIONS

"SLEEP,
FOR THY MOTHER BENDS OVER THEE YET!"

Frontispiece

BACK
FROM TOWN--HEADPIECE

23

A
HOBO VOLUNTARY--HEADPIECE

25

HE
CAMPS NEAR TOWN, ON THE OLD CRICK-BANK

27

AND
SO LIKEWISE DOES THE FARMHANDS STARE

31

A
HOBO VOLUNTARY--TAILPIECE

33

BE
OUR FORTUNES AS THEY MAY--HEADPIECE

34

BE
OUR FORTUNES AS THEY MAY--TAILPIECE

35

AND
WRAPPED IN SHROUDS OF DRIFTING CLOUDS

37

UNCLE
SIDNEY TO MARCELLUS--HEADPIECE

40

THE
POET'S LOVE FOR THE CHILDREN--HEADPIECE

42

OF
THE ORCHARD-LANDS OF CHILDHOOD

43

FRIEND
OF A WAYWARD HOUR--HEADPIECE

46

FRIEND
OF A WAYWARD HOUR--TAILPIECE

47

MY
HENRY--HEADPIECE

48

NOTHIN'
THAT BOY WOULDN'T RESK!

49

A
LETTER TO A FRIEND--HEADPIECE

52

A
LETTER TO A FRIEND--TAILPIECE

53

THE
OLD-FASHIONED BIBLE--HEADPIECE

54

THE
BLESSED OLD VOLUME

55

GOOD-BY
ER HOWDY-DO--HEADPIECE

58

GOOD-BY
ER HOWDY-DO--TAILPIECE

59

"THE
LITTLE MAN IN THE TINSHOP"--HEADPIECE

61

THE
ORCHESTRA, WITH ITS MELODY

63

TOMMY
SMITH--HEADPIECE

66

OUR
OLD FRIEND NEVERFAIL--HEADPIECE

72

HIS
MOUTH IS A GRIN WITH THE CORNERS TUCKED IN

75

ART
AND POETRY--HEADPIECE

78

DOWN
TO THE CAPITAL--HEADPIECE

80

TO
OLD ONE-LEGGED CHAPS, LIKE ME

83

"IT'S
ALL JES' ARTIFICIAL, THIS-ERE HIGH-PRICED LIFE OF OURS"

87

OLD
CHUMS--HEADPIECE

89

SCOTTY--HEADPIECE | 90

THE
OLD MAN--HEADPIECE

92

IN
YOUR REPOSEFUL GAZE

95

THE
OLD MAN--TAILPIECE

99

THE
ANCIENT PRINTERMAN--HEADPIECE

101

O
PRINTERMAN OF SALLOW FACE

103

THE
OLD MAN AND JIM--HEADPIECE

105

"WELL,
GOOD-BY, JIM"

107

THE
OLD MAN AND JIM--TAILPIECE

109

THE
OLD MAN AND JIM--TAILPIECE

110

THE
OLD MAN AND JIM--TAILPIECE

111

THE
OLD SCHOOL-CHUM--HEADPIECE

112

THE
OLD SCHOOL-CHUM--TAILPIECE

113

MY
JOLLY FRIEND'S SECRET--HEADPIECE

114

AH,
FRIEND OF MINE, HOW GOES IT

115

MY
JOLLY FRIEND'S SECRET--TAILPIECE

119

THE
OLD BAND--HEADPIECE

121

I
WANT TO HEAR THE OLD BAND PLAY

123

THE
OLD BAND--TAILPIECE

125

MY
FRIEND--HEADPIECE

126

MY
FRIEND--TAILPIECE

127

THE
TRAVELING MAN--HEADPIECE

128

WHO
HAVE MET HIM WITH SMILES AND WITH CHEER

129

DAN
O'SULLIVAN--HEADPIECE

132

DAN
O'SULLIVAN--TAILPIECE

133

MY
OLD FRIEND--HEADPIECE

134

OLD
JOHN HENRY--HEADPIECE

136

A
SMILIN' FACE AND A HEARTY HAND

137

CHRISTMAS
GREETING--HEADPIECE

141

ABE
MARTIN--HEADPIECE

142

HIS
MOUTH, LIKE HIS PIPE, 'S ALLUS GOIN'

143

THE
LITTLE OLD POEM THAT NOBODY READS--HEADPIECE

146

THE
LITTLE OLD POEM THAT NOBODY READS--TAILPIECE

147

IN
THE AFTERNOON--HEADPIECE

148

YOU
IN THE HAMMOCK; AND I, NEAR BY

149

IN
THE AFTERNOON--TAILPIECE

151

HERR
WEISER--HEADPIECE

153

AND
LILY AND ASTER AND COLUMBINE

155

HERR
WEISER--TAILPIECE

157

A
MOTHER-SONG--HEADPIECE

158

WHAT
"OLD SANTA" OVERHEARD--HEADPIECE

160

WHAT
"OLD SANTA" OVERHEARD--TAILPIECE

161

WHEN
OLD JACK DIED--HEADPIECE

163

WE
COULDN'T ONLY CRY WHEN OLD JACK DIED

165

WHEN
OLD JACK DIED--TAILPIECE

167

THAT
NIGHT--HEADPIECE

168

THAT
NIGHT--TAILPIECE

169

TO
ALMON KEEFER--HEADPIECE

170

UNDER
"THE OLD SWEET APPLE TREE"

171

TO
ALMON KEEFER--TAILPIECE

173

TO
THE QUIET OBSERVER--HEADPIECE

174

TO
THE QUIET OBSERVER--TAILPIECE

175

REACH
YOUR HAND TO ME--HEADPIECE

176

REACH
YOUR HAND TO ME, MY FRIEND

177

REACH
YOUR HAND TO ME--TAILPIECE

179

THE
DEAD JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN--HEADPIECE

180

THE
DEAD JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN--TAILPIECE

181

AMERICA'S
THANKSGIVING--HEADPIECE

182

OLD
INDIANY--HEADPIECE

185

BUT,
FELLERS, SHE'S A LEAKY STATE!

187

OLD
INDIANY--TAILPIECE

190

NYE AND RILEY'S

Wit and Humor

(Poems and Yarns)

By James Whitcomb Riley, and Bill Nye

Illustrated

CONTENTS

August—Riley | 32
Anecdotes of Jay Gould—Nye | 23
A Black Hills Episode—Riley | 132
A Blasted Snore—Nye | 190
A Brave Refrain—Riley | 188
A Character—Riley | 142
A Dose't of Blues—Riley | 220
A Fall Creek View of the Earthquake—Riley | 30
A Hint of Spring—Riley | 168
A Letter of Acceptance—Nye | 56
A Treat Ode—Riley | 170
Craqueodoom—Riley | 81
Curly Locks—Riley | 118
Ezra House—Riley | 161
From Delphi to Camden—Riley | 75
Good-bye or Howdy-do—Riley | 195
Healthy, but Out of the Race—Nye | 101
Her Tired Hands—Nye | 152
His Crazy Bone—Riley | 89
His Christmas Sled—Riley | 150
His First Womern—Riley | 41
How to Hunt the Fox—Nye | 46
In a Box—Riley | 214
In the Afternoon—Riley | 65
Julius Cæsar in Town—Nye | 34
Lines on Hearing a Cow Bawl—Riley | 107
Lines on Turning Over a Pass—Nye | 120
Me and Mary—Riley | 109
McFeeters' Fourth—Riley | 211
My Bachelor Chum—Riley | 178
Mr Silberberg—Riley | 96
Niagara Falls from the Nye Side—Nye | 111
Never Talk Back—Riley | 20
Oh, Wilhelmina, Come Back—Nye | 165
Our Wife—Nye | 172
Prying Open the Future—Nye | 90
Says He—Riley | 204
Seeking to Be Identified—Nye | 228
Seeking to Set the Public Right—Nye | 216
Spirits at Home—Riley | 99
Society Gurgs from Sandy Mush—Nye | 197
Sutter's Claim—Riley | 226
This Man Jones—Riley | 43
That Night—Riley | 124
The Boy Friend—Riley | 54
The Chemist of the Carolinas—Nye | 82
The Diary of Darius T Skinner—Nye | 144
The Grammatical Boy—Nye | 77
The Gruesome Ballad of Mr Squincher—Riley | 21
The Man in the Moon—Riley | 148
The Philanthropical Jay—Nye | 180
The Truth about Methuselah—Nye | 126
The Tar-heel Cow—Nye | 137
The Rise and Fall of William Johnson—Nye | 66
The Rossville Lecture Course—Riley | 134
Wanted, a Fox—Nye | 222
Where He First Met His Parents—Nye | 17
Where the Roads are Engaged in Forking—Nye | 206
While Cigarettes to Ashes Turn—Riley | 201
Why It Was Done—Nye & Riley | 11

THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY

Poems and Prose Sketches

James Whitcomb Riley

CONTENTS

PAGE
The Old Soldier's Story | 1
Somep'n Common-like | 5
Monsieur le Secretaire | 6
A Phantom | 7
In the Corridor | 8
Louella Wainie | 9
The Text | 11
William Brown | 12
Why | 14
The Touch of Loving Hands | 15
A Test | 16
A Song for Christmas | 17
Sun and Rain | 19
With Her Face | 20
My Night | 21
The Hour Before the Dawn | 22
Good-by, Old Year | 23
False and True | 24
A Ballad from April | 25
Brudder Sims | 27
Deformed | 28
Faith | 30
The Lost Thrill | 31
At Dusk | 32
Another Ride from Ghent to Aix | 33
In the Heart of June | 36
Dreams | 37
Because | 42
To the Cricket | 43
The Old-fashioned Bible | 44
Uncomforted | 46
What They Said | 48
After the Frost | 50
Charles H. Phillips | 51
When It Rains | 53
An Assassin | 55
Best of All | 56
Bin a-Fishin' | 57
Uncle Dan'l in Town Over Sunday | 59
Soldiers Here To-day | 61
Shadow and Shine | 65
That Night | 66
August | 67
The Guide | 68
Sutter's Claim | 71
Her Light Guitar | 73
While Cigarettes to Ashes Turn | 74
Two Sonnets to the June-bug | 77
Autographic | 79
An Impromptu on Roller Skates | 80
Written in Bunner's "Airs from Arcady" | 81
In the Afternoon | 82
At Madame Manicure's | 84
A Caller from Boone | 86
Lord Bacon | 98
My First Womern | 99
As We Read Burns | 101
To James Newton Matthews | 102
Song | 103
When We Three Meet | 105
Josh Billings | 106
Which Ane | 108
The Earthquake | 111
A Fall-crick View of the Earthquake | 112
Lewis D. Hayes | 114
In Days to Come | 116
Luther A. Todd | 117
When the Hearse Comes Back | 121
Our Old Friend Neverfail | 124
Dan O'sullivan | 126
John Boyle O'reilly | 127
Meredith Nicholson | 129
God's Mercy | 130
Christmas Greeting | 131
To Rudyard Kipling | 132
The Gudewife | 133
Tennyson | 134
Rosamond C. Bailey | 135
Mrs. Benjamin Harrison | 136
George A. Carr | 138
To Elizabeth | 139
To Almon Keefer | 140
To—"The J. W. R. Literary Club" | 142
Little Maid-o'-dreams | 143
To the Boy with a Country | 145
Claude Matthews | 146
To Lesley | 147
The Judkins Papers | 148
To the Quiet Observer—erasmus Wilson | 165
America's Thanksgiving | 166
William Pinkney Fishback | 168
John Clark Ridpath | 170
New Year's Nursery Jingle | 173
To the Mother | 174
To My Sister | 175
A Motto | 176
To a Poet on His Marriage | 177
Art and Poetry | 178
Her Smile of Cheer and Voice of Song | 179
Old Indiany | 180
Abe Martin | 183
O. Henry | 185
"Mona Machree" | 186
William Mckinley | 187
Benjamin Harrison | 190
Lee O. Harris | 192
The Highest Good | 194
My Conscience | 195
My Boy | 197
The Object Lesson | 198

NEGHBORLY POEMS AND DIALECT SKETCHES

By James Whitcomb Riley

CONTENTS

THE OLD SWIMMIN'-HOLE, AND 'LEVEN MORE POEMS
The Delights of our Childhood is soon Passed Away | 2
The Old Swimmin'-Hole | 3
Thoughts fer The Discuraged Farmer | 6
A Summer's Day | 9
A Hymb of Faith | 13
Wortermelon Time | 16
My Philosofy | 20
When the Frost is on the Punkin | 23
On the Death of Little Mahala Ashcraft | 26
The Mulberry Tree | 29
To my Old Friend, William Leachman | 31
My Fiddle | 36
The Clover | 39

NEGHBORLY POEMS
On Friendship, Grief and
Farm-Life

Us Farmers in the Country, as the Seasons go and
Come

42

Erasmus Wilson | 43
My Ruthers | 48
On a Dead Babe | 51
A Old Played-out Song | 52
"Coon-dog Wess" | 55
Perfesser John Clark Ridpath | 62
A Tale of the Airly Days | 66
"Mylo Jones's Wife" | 68
On a Splendud Match | 71
Old John Clevenger on Buckeyes | 72
The Hoss | 78
Ezra House | 82
A Pen-Pictur' | 86
Wet-weather Talk | 90
Thoughts on a Pore Joke | 93
A Mortul Prayer | 94
The First Bluebird | 96
Evagene Baker | 97
On any Ordenary Man | 100
Town and Country | 101
Lines Writ fer Isaac Bradwell | 103
Decoration Day on the Place | 104
The Tree-Toad | 107
The Rossville Lectur' Course | 109
When the Green Gits Back in the Trees | 112
How it Happened | 114
A Dos't o' Blues | 117
The Old Home by the Mill | 119
The Way it Wuz | 121
Pap's Old Sayin' | 125
Romancin' | 128
AN OLD SETTLER'S STORY | 133
DIALECT IN LITERATURE | 195

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Table of Contents

- INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

- Compiled by David Widger

- CONTENTS

- Click on the ## before many of the titles to view a linked table of contents for that volume. Click on the title itself to open the original online file.

- TABLES OF CONTENTS OF VOLUMES

- RILEY FARM-RHYMES

- CONTENTS

- A CHILD-WORLD

- James Whitcomb Riley

- CONTENTS

- RILEY CHILD-RHYMES

- CONTENTS

- PIPES O' PAN AT ZEKESBURY

- 1895 CONTENTS

- THE BOOK OF JOYOUS CHILDREN

- CONTENTS

- FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS

- AFTERWHILES

- CONTENTS

- SONGS OF HOME

- CONTENTS

- RILEY LOVE-LYRICS

- With Life Pictures By William B. Dyer
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS

- RILEY SONGS OF FRIENDSHIP

- With Pictures By Will Vawter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS

- NYE AND RILEY'S Wit and Humor

- (Poems and Yarns)

- Illustrated

- CONTENTS

- THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY

- Poems and Prose Sketches

- James Whitcomb Riley

- CONTENTS

- NEGHBORLY POEMS AND DIALECT SKETCHES

- CONTENTS

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