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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of James Whitcomb Riley

Chapter 24: NEGHBORLY POEMS AND DIALECT SKETCHES
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A compiled index gathers the poet's published volumes and poems, presenting tables of contents for many individual books and grouping titles by collection. It lists poem and sketch names from rural and child-focused verse, lyrical and humorous pieces, and dialect sketches, with organizational notes and links to original files included for navigation. The resource functions as a bibliographic guide to the poet's output, enabling readers to locate specific poems, volumes, and thematic collections rather than offering continuous text.

NEGHBORLY POEMS AND DIALECT SKETCHES

By James Whitcomb Riley

CONTENTS

THE OLD SWIMMIN'-HOLE, AND 'LEVEN MORE POEMS
The Delights of our Childhood is soon Passed Away 2
The Old Swimmin'-Hole 3
Thoughts fer The Discuraged Farmer 6
A Summer's Day 9
A Hymb of Faith 13
Wortermelon Time 16
My Philosofy 20
When the Frost is on the Punkin 23
On the Death of Little Mahala Ashcraft 26
The Mulberry Tree 29
To my Old Friend, William Leachman 31
My Fiddle 36
The Clover 39
NEGHBORLY POEMS
On Friendship, Grief and Farm-Life
Us Farmers in the Country, as the Seasons go and Come 42
Erasmus Wilson 43
My Ruthers 48
On a Dead Babe 51
A Old Played-out Song 52
"Coon-dog Wess" 55
Perfesser John Clark Ridpath 62
A Tale of the Airly Days 66
"Mylo Jones's Wife" 68
On a Splendud Match 71
Old John Clevenger on Buckeyes 72
The Hoss 78
Ezra House 82
A Pen-Pictur' 86
Wet-weather Talk 90
Thoughts on a Pore Joke 93
A Mortul Prayer 94
The First Bluebird 96
Evagene Baker 97
On any Ordenary Man 100
Town and Country 101
Lines Writ fer Isaac Bradwell 103
Decoration Day on the Place 104
The Tree-Toad 107
The Rossville Lectur' Course 109
When the Green Gits Back in the Trees 112
How it Happened 114
A Dos't o' Blues 117
The Old Home by the Mill 119
The Way it Wuz 121
Pap's Old Sayin' 125
Romancin' 128
AN OLD SETTLER'S STORY 133
DIALECT IN LITERATURE 195