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The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley

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Riley, James Whitcomb (1849-1916)

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VOLUME I
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VOLUME II
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VOLUME III
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VOLUME IV
  
THE SOUTH WIND AND THE SUN
  
WHERE-AWAY
  
THE SMITTEN PURIST
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CHRISTINE BRAIBRY
  
DEAR HANDS
  
WINTER FANCIES
  
“A BRAVE REFRAIN”
  
AS I SIT IN THE SILENCE
  
LONGFELLOW'S LOVE FOR THE CHILDREN
  
A SONG OF LONG AGO
  
UNLESS
  
WHEN EARLY MARCH SEEMS MIDDLE MAY
  
THE MUSKINGUM VALLEY
  
SERENADE—TO NORA
  
THE LITTLE WHITE HEARSE
  
A GLIMPSE OF PAN
  
THE GREAT GOD PAN
  
HER LIGHT GUITAR
  
THE ALL-GOLDEN
  
THE WAY THE BABY CAME
  
THE WAY THE BABY WOKE
  
THE WAY THE BABY SLEPT
  
WHEN MAIMIE MARRIED
  
HER HAIR
  
A VISION OF SUMMER
  
WHILE CIGARETTES TO ASHES TURN
  
THE LITTLE RED RIBBON
  
THE MAN IN THE MOON
  
A BAREFOOT BOY
  
“THE PREACHER'S BOY”
  
WE TO SIGH INSTEAD OF SING
  
NOTHIN' TO SAY
  
JACK-IN-THE-BOX
  
THE OLD TRUNDLE-BED
  
MY MARY
  
TWO SONNETS TO THE JUNE-BUG
  
ONE AFTERNOON
  
THE BEAUTIFUL CITY
  
A LIFE TERM
  
McFEETERS' FOURTH
  
AT NINETY IN THE SHADE
  
A SUDDEN SHOWER
  
GOOD-BY ER HOWDY-DO
  
WITH THE CURRENT
  
WET-WEATHER TALK
  
A POOR MAN'S WEALTH
  
AUTOGRAPHIC
  
IN SWIMMING-TIME
  
THE BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH
  
HE CALLED HER IN
  
GIVE ME THE BABY
  
AN AUTUMNAL TONIC
  
OUT OF THE HITHERWHERE
  
A TINKLE OF BELLS
  
THE OLD MAN
  
OUR KIND OF A MAN
  
THE LITTLE COAT
  
AN IMPROMPTU ON ROLLER SKATES
  
ME AND MARY
  
WRITTEN IN BUNNER'S “AIRS FROM ARCADY”
  
A SONG
  
NEVER TALK BACK
  
MY FRIEND
  
THE LITTLE FAT DOCTOR
  
THE STRANGE YOUNG MAN
  
SCOTTY
  
ON THE SUNNY SIDE
  
THE HARPER
  
THE BLOSSOMS ON THE TREES
  
LAUGHTER HOLDING BOTH HIS SIDES
  
IN STATE
  
THE DEAD LOVER
  
THE KIND OLD MAN
  
A SCRAWL
  
AWAY
  
A MONUMENT FOR THE SOLDIERS
  
OUT TO OLD AUNT MARY'S
  
IN THE AFTERNOON
  
UNINTERPRETED
  
BILLY'S ALPHABETICAL ANIMAL SHOW
  
THE PIXY PEOPLE
  
THE TOWN KARNTEEL
  
DONN PIATT OF MAC-O-CHEE
  
HERR WEISER
  
FROM DELPHI TO CAMDEN
  
A NOON INTERVAL
  
AT MADAME MANICURE'S
  
JOHN McKEEN
  
THE BOY-FRIEND
  
WHEN BESSIE DIED
  
THE RIVALS; OR THE SHOWMAN'S RUSE
  
THE CHRIST
  
TO HEAR HER SING
  
FROM THE HEADBOARD OF A GRAVE IN PARAGUAY
  
A CANARY AT THE FARM
  
SEPTEMBER DARK
  
ANSELMO
  
TIME OF CLEARER TWITTERINGS
  
THE BOYS
  
LINCOLN
  
THE BLIND GIRL
  
THE KING
  
A LIZ-TOWN HUMORIST
  
LIKE HIS MOTHER USED TO MAKE
  
A GOLDEN WEDDING
  
HIS CHRISTMAS SLED
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A NEW YEAR'S TIME AT WILLARDS'S
  
WHATEVER THE WEATHER MAY BE
  
A LEAVE-TAKING
  
DOWN ON WRIGGLE CRICK
  
LORD BACON
  
MY FIRST WOMERN
  
THE QUEST
  
TO AN IMPORTUNATE GHOST
  
WHO BIDES HIS TIME
  
AS WE READ BURNS
  
WHEN JUNE IS HERE
  
AT NOON—AND MIDNIGHT
  
TO JAMES NEWTON MATTHEWS
  
SPIRITS AT HOME
  
ART AND LOVE
  
SONG
  
PAP'S OLD SAYIN'
  
GRANNY
  
BECALMED
  
GRIGGSBY'S STATION
  
FESSLER'S BEES
  
JONEY
  
KNEE-DEEP IN JUNE
  
THE LAW OF THE PERVERSE
  
OUT OF NAZARETH
  
TIME
  
IKE WALTON'S PRAYER
  
THE WAY IT WUZ
  
CURLY LOCKS
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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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994

LAUGHTER HOLDING BOTH HIS SIDES

Ay, thou varlet! Laugh away!
All the world's a holiday!
Laugh away, and roar and shout
Till thy hoarse tongue lolleth out!
Bloat thy cheeks, and bulge thine eyes
Unto bursting; pelt thy thighs
With thy swollen palms, and roar
As thou never hast before!
Lustier! wilt thou! peal on peal!
Stiflest? Squat and grind thy heel—
Wrestle with thy loins, and then
Wheeze thee whiles, and whoop again!
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