AFTERWHILES

By James Whitcomb Riley



CONTENTS

PROEM (AKA "Afterwhiles")
Herr Weiser
The Beautiful City
Lockerbie Street
Das Krist Kindel
Anselmo
A Home-Made Fairy Tale
The South Wind and the Sun
The Lost Kiss
The Sphinx
If I knew What Poets Know
Ike Walton's Prayer
A Rough Sketch
Our Kind of a Man
The Harper
Old Aunt Mary's
Illileo
The King
A Bride
The Dead Lover
A Song
When Bessie Died
The Shower
A Life Lesson
A Scrawl
Away
Who Bides His Time
From the Headboard of a Grave in Paraguay
Laughter Holding Both His Sides
Fame
The Ripest Peach
A Fruit Piece
Their Sweet Sorrow
John McKeen
Out of Nazareth
September Dark
We To Sigh Instead of Sing
The Blossoms on the Trees
Last Night— And This
A Discouraging Model
Back From a Two-years' Sentence
The Wandering Jew
Becalmed
To Santa Claus
Where the Children used to Play
A Glimpse of Pan
SONNETS
Pan
Dusk
June
Silence
Sleep
Her Hair
Dearth
A Voice From the Farm
The Serenade
Art and Love
Longfellow
Indiana
Time
Grant
IN DIALECT
Old Fashioned Roses
Griggsby's Station
Knee Deep in June
When The Hearse Comes Back
A Canary At the Farm
A Liz Town Humorist
Kingry's Mill
Joney
Like His Mother Used To Make
The Train Misser
Granny
Old October
Jim
To Robert Burns
A New Year's Time at Willards's
The Town Karnteel
Regardin' Terry Hut
Leedle Dutch Baby
Down On Wriggle Crick
When De Folks Is Gone
The Little Town O' Tailholt
Little Orphant Annie





SONGS OF HOME

By James Whitcomb Riley

With Pictures By Will Vawter



CONTENTS

AS CREATED 56
AS MY UNCLE USED TO SAY 126
AT SEA 160
BACKWARD LOOK, A 155
BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH, THE 123
BOYS, THE 104
"BRAVE REFRAIN, A" 113
DREAMER, SAY 61
FEEL IN THE CHRIS'MAS AIR 52
FOR YOU 50
GOOD MAN, A 132
HER BEAUTIFUL HANDS 189
HIS ROOM 38
HONEY DRIPPING FROM THE COMB 125
"HOW DID YOU REST, LAST NIGHT?" 94
IN THE EVENING 115
IT'S GOT TO BE 107
JACK-IN-THE-BOX 100
JIM 117
JOHN MCKEEN 165
JUST TO BE GOOD 26
KNEELING WITH HERRICK 138
LAUGHTER HOLDING BOTH HIS SIDES 81
MULBERRY TREE, THE 46
MY DANCIN' DAYS IS OVER 184
MY FRIEND 29
NATURAL PERVERSITIES 70
NOT ALWAYS GLAD WHEN WE SMILE 36
OLD DAYS, THE 135
OLD GUITAR, THE 161
OLD TRUNDLE-BED, THE 64
OUR BOYHOOD HAUNTS 182
OUR KIND OF A MAN 92
OUR OWN 63
"OUT OF REACH?" 112
OUT OF THE HITHERWHERE 98
PLAINT HUMAN, THE 43
QUEST, THE 44
RAINY MORNING, THE 141
REACH YOUR HAND TO ME 143
SCRAWL, A 75
SONG OF PARTING 90
SONG OF YESTERDAY, THE 82
SPRING SONG AND A LATER, A 137
"THEM OLD CHEERY WORDS" 172
THINKIN' BACK 31
THROUGH SLEEPY-LAND 170
TO MY OLD FRIEND, WILLIAM LEACHMAN 145
TO THE JUDGE 177
WE MUST BELIEVE 130
WE MUST GET HOME 19
WHERE-AWAY 57
WHO BIDES HIS TIME 68
WRITIN' BACK TO THE HOME-FOLKS 76





RILEY LOVE-LYRICS

By James Whitcomb Riley

With Life Pictures By William B. Dyer



CONTENTS

          PAGE
Blooms of May 185
Discouraging Model, A 133
"Dream" 46
Farmer Whipple—Bachelor 167
Has She Forgotten? 181
He and I 83
He Called Her In 50
Her Beautiful Eyes 60
Her Hair 128
Her Face and Brow 63
Her Waiting Face 71
Home at Night 122
How it Happened 95
Ike Walton's Prayer 107
Illileo 111
Judith 79
Last Night and This 131
Leonainie 68
Let Us Forget 64
Lost Path, The 87
My Bride That Is To Be 90
My Mary 117
Nothin' to Say 103
Old Played-out Song, A' 31
Old Sweetheart of Mine, An 23
Old Year and the New, The 72
Out-worn Sappho, An 37
Passing of a Heart, The 44
Rival, The 148
Rose, The 178
Sermon of the Rose, The 189
Song of Long Ago, A 160
Suspense 136
Their Sweet Sorrow 76
To Hear Her Sing 146
Tom Van Arden 139
Touches of Her Hands, The 157
Variation, A 151
Very Youthful Affair, A 36
When Age Comes On 164
When Lide Married Him 125
When My Dreams Come True 99
When She Comes Home 67
Where Shall We Land 154
Wife-Blesséd, The 115

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
Love-Lyrics Frontispiece
Illustrations—Tailpiece xx
An Old Sweetheart of Mine 23
And I Light My Pipe in Silence 24
The Voices of My Children 25
The Pink Sunbonnet 26
When First I Kissed Her 27
(untitled image) 29
My Wife is Standing There 30
A' Old Played-Out Song 33
A' Old Played-Out Song—Tailpiece 35
A Very Youthful Affair 36
An Out-worn Sappho 41
An Out-worn Sappho—Tailpiece 43
The Passing of a Heart—Title 44
The Passing of a Heart—Tailpiece 45
"Dream" 47
"Dream"—Tailpiece 49
He Called Her In—Title 50
A Dark and Eerie Child 51
When She First Came to Me 57
He Called Her In—Tailpiece 59
Her Beautiful Eyes 61
Her Face and Brow 63
Let Us Forget—Title 64
Our Worn Eyes are Wet 65
When She Comes Home 67
Leonainie—Title 68
Leonainie—Tailpiece 70
Her Waiting Face 71
The Old Year and the New—Title 72
I Saw the Old Year End 73
Their Sweet Sorrow 77
Judith 79
O, Her Eyes are Amber-fine 81
He and I 85
The Lost Path—Title 87
The Lost Path 89
Madonna-like and Glorified 91
How it Happened 97
When My Dreams Come True 101
Nothin' to Say 105
Ike Walton's Prayer—Title 107
Ike Walton's Prayer—Tailpiece 110
Illileo 113
Wife-Blesséd, The 115
The Auld Trysting-Tree 119
My Mary—Tailpiece 121
Home at Night 123
When Lide Married Him—Title 125
When Lide Married Him—Tailpiece 127
Her Hair 129
Last Night and This—Title 131
Last Night and This—Tailpiece 132
A Discouraging Model—Title 133
A Cameo Face 135
Suspense 137
Tom Van Arden—Title 139
Tom Van Arden 141
To Hear Her Sing 146
The Rival 148
A Variation—Title 151
Where Shall We Land?—Title 154
Where Shall We Land?—Tailpiece 156
The Touches of Her Hands—Title 157
The Touches of Her Hands—Tailpiece 158
O Rarely Soft, the Touches of Her Hands 159
A Song of Long Ago 161
When Age Comes On 165
Farmer Whipple—Bachelor—Title 167
Ridin' Home with Mary 171
Farmer Whipple—Bachelor—Tailpiece 177
The Rose—Title 178
Has She Forgotten? 183
Blooms of May—Title 185
O Lad and Lass 186
O Gleam and Gloom and Woodland Bloom 187
The Sermon of the Rose 191