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Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of James Whitcomb Riley

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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 HimTitle 125
When Lide Married HimTailpiece 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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