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The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley

in ten volumes
Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)

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VOLUME I
  
A BACKWARD LOOK
  
PHILIPER FLASH
  
THE SAME OLD STORY
  
TO A BOY WHISTLING
  
AN OLD FRIEND
  
WHAT SMITH KNEW ABOUT FARMING
  
A POET'S WOOING
  
MAN'S DEVOTION
  
A BALLAD
  
THE OLD TIMES WERE THE BEST
  
A SUMMER AFTERNOON
  
AT LAST
  
FARMER WHIPPLE—BACHELOR
  
MY JOLLY FRIEND'S SECRET
  
THE SPEEDING OF THE KING'S SPITE
  
JOB WORK
  
PRIVATE THEATRICALS
  
PLAIN SERMONS
  
“TRADIN' JOE”
  
DOT LEEDLE BOY
  
I SMOKE MY PIPE
  
RED RIDING-HOOD
  
IF I KNEW WHAT POETS KNOW
  
AN OLD SWEETHEART OF MINE
  
SQUIRE HAWKINS'S STORY
  
A COUNTRY PATHWAY
  
THE OLD GUITAR
  
“FRIDAY AFTERNOON”
  
“JOHNSON'S BOY”
  
HER BEAUTIFUL HANDS
  
NATURAL PERVERSITIES
  
THE SILENT VICTORS
  
SCRAPS
  
AUGUST
  
DEAD IN SIGHT OF FAME
  
IN THE DARK
  
THE IRON HORSE
  
DEAD LEAVES
  
OVER THE EYES OF GLADNESS
  
ONLY A DREAM
  
OUR LITTLE GIRL
  
THE FUNNY LITTLE FELLOW
  
SONG OF THE NEW YEAR
  
A LETTER TO A FRIEND
  
LINES FOR AN ALBUM
  
TO ANNIE
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FAME
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III
  
AN EMPTY NEST
  
MY FATHER'S HALLS
  
THE HARP OF THE MINSTREL
  
HONEY DRIPPING FROM THE COMB
  
JOHN WALSH
  
ORLIE WILDE
  
THAT OTHER MAUD MULLER
  
A MAN OF MANY PARTS
  
THE FROG
  
DEAD SELVES
  
A DREAM OF LONG AGO
  
CRAQUEODOOM
  
JUNE
  
WASH LOWRY'S REMINISCENCE
  
THE ANCIENT PRINTERMAN
  
PRIOR TO MISS BELLE'S APPEARANCE
  
WHEN MOTHER COMBED MY HAIR
  
A WRANGDILLION
  
GEORGE MULLEN'S CONFESSION
  
“TIRED OUT”
  
HARLIE
  
SAY SOMETHING TO ME
  
LEONAINIE
  
A TEST OF LOVE
  
FATHER WILLIAM
  
WHAT THE WIND SAID
  
MORTON
  
AN AUTUMNAL EXTRAVAGANZA
  
THE ROSE
  
THE MERMAN
  
THE RAINY MORNING
  
WE ARE NOT ALWAYS GLAD WHEN WE SMILE
  
A SUMMER SUNRISE
  
DAS KRIST KINDEL
  
AN OLD YEAR'S ADDRESS
  
A NEW YEAR'S PLAINT
  
LUTHER BENSON
  
“DREAM”
  
WHEN EVENING SHADOWS FALL
  
YLLADMAR
  
A FANTASY
  
A DREAM
  
DREAMER, SAY
  
BRYANT
  
BABYHOOD
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LIBERTY
  
TOM VAN ARDEN
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VOLUME II
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VOLUME III
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VOLUME IV
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VOLUME V
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VOLUME VI
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VOLUME VII
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VOLUME VIII
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VOLUME IX

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THE WAY THE BABY SLEPT

This is the way the baby slept:
A mist of tresses backward thrown
By quavering sighs where kisses crept
With yearnings she had never known:
The little hands were closely kept
About a lily newly blown—
And God was with her. And we wept.—
And this is the way the baby slept.
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