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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
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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
  
THE BUMBLEBEE
  
A PROSPECTIVE GLIMPSE
  
THE OLD TRAMP
  
THE PET COON
  
AN IMPETUOUS RESOLVE
  
THE HUNTER BOY
  
BILLY GOODIN'
  
SONG—FOR NOVEMBER
  
AT AUNTY'S HOUSE
  
LIFE AT THE LAKE
  
JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY
  
THE BOYS' CANDIDATE
  
CHRISTINE
  
OLD JOHN CLEVENGER ON BUCKEYES
  
MEREDITH NICHOLSON
  
MY RUTHERS
  
GOD'S MERCY
  
THE WHITHERAWAYS
  
A BOY'S MOTHER
  
THE RUNAWAY BOY
  
THE FISHING-PARTY
  
THE RAGGEDY MAN
  
OUR HIRED GIRL
  
THE BOY LIVES ON OUR FARM
  
SONG OF THE BULLET
  
CHRISTMAS GREETING
  
UNCLE WILLIAM'S PICTURE
  
ERASMUS WILSON
  
BACK FROM TOWN
  
TUGG MARTIN
  
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
  
ELIZABETH
  
SONGS OF A LIFE-TIME
  
AN OLD MAN'S MEMORY
  
US FARMERS IN THE COUNTRY
  
ON A DEAD BABE
  
“MYLO JONES'S WIFE”
  
A PEN-PICTUR' OF A CERT'IN FRIVVOLUS OLD MAN
  
THOUGHTS ON A PORE JOKE
  
EVAGENE BAKER
  
ON ANY ORDENARY MAN IN A HIGH STATE OF LAUGHTURE AND DELIGHT
  
THE HOODOO
  
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
  
THE GUDEWIFE
  
RIGHT HERE AT HOME
  
LITTLE MARJORIE
  
KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN
  
OLD JOHN HENRY
  
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
  
LONGFELLOW
  
HIS VIGIL
  
THE QUARREL
  
JOHN BROWN
  
GO, WINTER!
  
THANKSGIVING
  
AUTUMN
  
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
  
TENNYSON
  
MRS. BENJAMIN HARRISON
  
THE POEMS HERE AT HOME
  
LITTLE COUSIN JASPER
  
THE DOODLE-BUGS'S CHARM
  
“HOME AG'IN”
  
THE SPOILED CHILD
  
THE BEE-BAG
  
THE TRULY MARVELOUS
  
OLD CHUMS
  
“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
  
LITTLE DAVID
  
HOME AGAIN
  
A SEA-SONG FROM THE SHORE
  
THE DEAD WIFE
  
TO ELIZABETH
  
ARMAZINDY
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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
  
A NOON LULL
  
RABBIT IN THE CROSS-TIES
  
WHEN LIDE MARRIED HIM
  
“RINGWORM FRANK”
  
THE YOUTHFUL PATRIOT
  
PONCHUS PILUT
  
SLUMBER-SONG
  
THE CIRCUS PARADE
  
FOLKS AT LONESOMEVILLE
  
THE THREE JOLLY HUNTERS
  
THE LITTLE DOG-WOGGY
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CHARMS
  
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
  
JARGON-JINGLE
  
THE GREAT EXPLORER
  
THE SCHOOLBOY'S FAVORITE
  
ALBUMANIA
  
THE LITTLE MOCK-MAN
  
SUMMER-TIME AND WINTER-TIME
  
HOME-MADE RIDDLES
  
THE LOVELY CHILD
  
THE YELLOWBIRD
  
SAD PERVERSITY
  
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
  
EUGENE FIELD
  
DREAM-MARCH
  
A CHRISTMAS MEMORY
  
TO ALMON KEEFER
  
LITTLE MAID-O'-DREAMS
  
EDGAR WILSON NYE
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VOLUME VII
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VOLUME VIII
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VOLUME IX

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WE DEFER THINGS

We say and we say and we say,
We promise, engage and declare,
Till a year from to-morrow is yesterday,
And yesterday is—Where?
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