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The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley

in ten volumes

Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)

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A PROSPECTIVE GLIMPSE

AN IMPETUOUS RESOLVE

SONG—FOR NOVEMBER

AT AUNTY'S HOUSE

LIFE AT THE LAKE

JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY

THE BOYS' CANDIDATE

OLD JOHN CLEVENGER ON BUCKEYES

MEREDITH NICHOLSON

THE WHITHERAWAYS

THE RUNAWAY BOY

THE FISHING-PARTY

THE RAGGEDY MAN

THE BOY LIVES ON OUR FARM

SONG OF THE BULLET

CHRISTMAS GREETING

UNCLE WILLIAM'S PICTURE

TO RUDYARD KIPLING

DECORATION DAY ON THE PLACE

TOWN AND COUNTRY

THE FIRST BLUEBIRD

LINES TO PERFESSER JOHN CLARK RIDPATH A. M., LL. D. T-Y-TY

SONGS OF A LIFE-TIME

AN OLD MAN'S MEMORY

US FARMERS IN THE COUNTRY

“MYLO JONES'S WIFE”

A PEN-PICTUR' OF A CERT'IN FRIVVOLUS OLD MAN

THOUGHTS ON A PORE JOKE

ON ANY ORDENARY MAN IN A HIGH STATE OF LAUGHTURE AND DELIGHT

CUORED O' SKEERIN'

OLD WINTERS ON THE FARM

“COON-DOG WESS”

GOIN' TO THE FAIR

THE WATCHES OF THE NIGHT

OSCAR C. McCULLOCH

WHAT CHRIS'MAS FETCHED THE WIGGINSES

RIGHT HERE AT HOME

LITTLE MARJORIE

KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN

BEING HIS MOTHER

GREEN FIELDS AND RUNNING BROOKS

SOME SCATTERING REMARKS OF BUB'S

BY HER WHITE BED

HOW JOHN QUIT THE FARM

HIS MOTHER'S WAY

THE HOOSIER FOLK-CHILD

THEIR SWEET SORROW

DAWN, NOON AND DEWFALL

JOHN ALDEN AND PERCILLY

THE RHYMES OF IRONQUILL

THE CURSE OF THE WANDERING FOOT

AS MY UNCLE UST TO SAY

WHITTIER—AT NEWBURYPORT

ROSAMOND C. BAILEY

MRS. BENJAMIN HARRISON

THE POEMS HERE AT HOME

LITTLE COUSIN JASPER

THE DOODLE-BUGS'S CHARM

“HOME AG'IN”

THE SPOILED CHILD

THE TRULY MARVELOUS

“THIS DEAR CHILD-HEARTED WOMAN THAT IS DEAD”

“HOW DID YOU REST, LAST NIGHT?”

TO—“THE J. W. R. LITERARY CLUB”

OUT OF THE DARK AND THE DEARTH

A SEA-SONG FROM THE SHORE

THREE SINGING FRIENDS

AT HIS WINTRY TENT

UP AND DOWN OLD BRANDYWINE

WRITIN' BACK TO THE HOME-FOLKS

WE DEFER THINGS

FOR THIS CHRISTMAS

TO A POET-CRITIC

RABBIT IN THE CROSS-TIES

WHEN LIDE MARRIED HIM

“RINGWORM FRANK”

THE YOUTHFUL PATRIOT

THE CIRCUS PARADE

FOLKS AT LONESOMEVILLE

THE THREE JOLLY HUNTERS

THE LITTLE DOG-WOGGY

A FEW OF THE BIRD-FAMILY

THROUGH SLEEPY-LAND

THE TRESTLE AND THE BUCK-SAW

THE KING OF OO-RINKTUM-JING

THE TOY PENNY-DOG

THE GREAT EXPLORER

THE SCHOOLBOY'S FAVORITE

THE LITTLE MOCK-MAN

SUMMER-TIME AND WINTER-TIME

HOME-MADE RIDDLES

THE LOVELY CHILD

A FEEL IN THE CHRIS'MAS-AIR

MISTER HOP-TOAD

THE SILENT SINGER

THE GREEN GRASS OF OLD IRELAND

A PEACE-HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC

MY DANCIN'-DAYS IS OVER

A CHRISTMAS MEMORY

TO ALMON KEEFER

LITTLE MAID-O'-DREAMS

EDGAR WILSON NYE

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2050

EXTREMES

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A little boy once played so loud
That the Thunder, up in a thunder-cloud,
Said, “Since I can't be heard, why, then
I'll never, never thunder again!”

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And a little girl once kept so still
That she heard a fly on the window-sill
Whisper and say to a ladybird,—
“She's the stilliest child I ever heard.”