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Afterwhiles

by James Whitcomb Riley

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Author
Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916
Credits
Etext produced by "Teary Eyes" Anderson HTML file produced by David Widger TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE: Most of this etext was made with a "Top Scan" text scanner, with a bit of correcting here and there. Mr. Riley does spell pretty=purty and such things and have been left as printed, including the first poem in this book listed as "Proem" on both the contents page and the page headers, even though in later editions this poem is simply called "Afterwhiles." In "The South Wind and the Sun" the line is 'Laughed out in every look.' while in later versions it has the word 'nook', replacing 'look.' The poem "Old Aunt Mary's" is later retitled "Out To Old Aunt Mary's" and later enlarged by 13 verses. The "In Dalect" section has the ' to replace a letter that he left out, to make the word sound a certain way, including words like sure-enuff he writes as sho'-nuff, or He'pless as helpless and ect. This etext is based on the 1898 edition Published by The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis Publishers. "Teary Eyes" Anderson***
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
Poetry
Category
Text
eBook-No.
15862
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15862
Release Date
May 19, 2005
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.AFTERWHILES
  2. 2.By James Whitcomb Riley — DEDICATED TO MY MOTHER ELIZABETH
  3. 3.PROEM (AKA "Afterwhiles")
  4. 4.Herr Weiser
  5. 5.The Beautiful City
  6. 6.Lockerbie Street
  7. 7.Das Krist Kindel
  8. 8.Anselmo
  9. 9.A Home-Made Fairy Tale
  10. 10.The South Wind and the Sun
  11. 11.The Lost Kiss
  12. 12.The Sphinx
  13. 13.If I knew What Poets Know
  14. 14.Ike Walton's Prayer
  15. 15.A Rough Sketch
  16. 16.Our Kind of a Man
  17. 17.The Harper
  18. 18.Old Aunt Mary's
  19. 19.Illileo
  20. 20.The King
  21. 21.A Bride
  22. 22.The Dead Lover
  23. 23.A Song
  24. 24.When Bessie Died
  25. 25.The Shower
  26. 26.A Life Lesson
  27. 27.A Scrawl
  28. 28.Away
  29. 29.Who Bides His Time
  30. 30.From the Headboard of a Grave in Paraguay
  31. 31.Laughter Holding Both His Sides
  32. 32.Fame
  33. 33.The Ripest Peach
  34. 34.A Fruit Piece
  35. 35.Their Sweet Sorrow
  36. 36.John McKeen
  37. 37.Out of Nazareth
  38. 38.September Dark
  39. 39.We To Sigh Instead of Sing
  40. 40.The Blossoms on the Trees
  41. 41.Last Night— And This
  42. 42.A Discouraging Model
  43. 43.Back From a Two-years' Sentence
  44. 44.The Wandering Jew
  45. 45.Becalmed
  46. 46.To Santa Claus
  47. 47.Where the Children used to Play
  48. 48.A Glimpse of Pan
  49. 49.SONNETS
  50. 50.Pan
  51. 51.Dusk
  52. 52.June
  53. 53.Silence
  54. 54.Sleep
  55. 55.Her Hair
  56. 56.Dearth
  57. 57.A Voice From the Farm
  58. 58.The Serenade
  59. 59.Art and Love
  60. 60.Longfellow
  61. 61.Indiana
  62. 62.Time
  63. 63.Grant
  64. 64.IN DIALECT
  65. 65.Old Fashioned Roses
  66. 66.Griggsby's Station
  67. 67.Knee Deep in June
  68. 68.When The Hearse Comes Back
  69. 69.A Canary At the Farm
  70. 70.A Liz Town Humorist
  71. 71.Kingry's Mill
  72. 72.Joney
  73. 73.Like His Mother Used To Make
  74. 74.The Train Misser
  75. 75.Granny
  76. 76.Old October
  77. 77.Jim
  78. 78.To Robert Burns
  79. 79.A New Year's Time at Willards's
  80. 80.The Town Karnteel
  81. 81.Regardin' Terry Hut
  82. 82.Leedle Dutch Baby
  83. 83.Down On Wriggle Crick
  84. 84.When De Folks Is Gone
  85. 85.The Little Town O' Tailholt
  86. 86.Little Orphant Annie

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