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Title: Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of James Whitcomb Riley Author: James Whitcomb Riley Editor: David Widger Release Date: February 8, 2019 [EBook #58844] Language: English Character set encoding: UTF-8 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK INDEX OF THE PG WORKS OF RILEY *** Produced by David Widger INDEX OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG WORKS OF JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Compiled by David Widger RILEY 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. ## 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
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