The Old Soldier's Story

About this eBook

Author

Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916

Title

The Old Soldier's Story: Poems and Prose Sketches

Credits

Produced by David Clarke, Chandra Friend and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

American poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

32335

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32335

Release Date

May 11, 2010

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.CONTENTS — THE OLD SOLDIER'S STORY AS TOLD BEFORE THE NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY IN NEW YORK CITY — SOMEP'N COMMON-LIKE — MONSIEUR LE SECRETAIRE [JOHN CLARK RIDPATH] — A PHANTOM — IN THE CORRIDOR — LOUELLA WAINIE — THE TEXT — WILLIAM BROWN — WHY — THE TOUCH OF LOVING HANDS IMITATED — A TEST — A SONG FOR CHRISTMAS — SUN AND RAIN — WITH HER FACE — MY NIGHT — THE HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN — GOOD-BY, OLD YEAR — FALSE AND TRUE — A BALLAD FROM APRIL — BRUDDER SIMS — DEFORMED — FAITH — THE LOST THRILL — AT DUSK — ANOTHER RIDE FROM GHENT TO AIX — IN THE HEART OF JUNE — DREAMS — BECAUSE — TO THE CRICKET — THE OLD-FASHIONED BIBLE — UNCOMFORTED — WHAT THEY SAID — AFTER THE FROST — CHARLES H. PHILLIPS OBIT NOVEMBER 5TH, 1881 — WHEN IT RAINS — AN ASSASSIN — BEST OF ALL — BIN A-FISHIN' — UNCLE DAN'L IN TOWN OVER SUNDAY — SOLDIERS HERE TO-DAY — SHADOW AND SHINE — THAT NIGHT — AUGUST — THE GUIDE IMITATED — SUTTER'S CLAIM IMITATED — HER LIGHT GUITAR — WHILE CIGARETTES TO ASHES TURN — TWO SONNETS TO THE JUNE-BUG — AUTOGRAPHIC For an Album — AN IMPROMPTU ON ROLLER SKATES — WRITTEN IN BUNNER'S "AIRS FROM ARCADY" — IN THE AFTERNOON — AT MADAME MANICURE'S — A CALLER FROM BOONE BENJ. F. JOHNSON VISITS THE EDITOR — LORD BACON WRITTEN AS A JOKE AND ASCRIBED TO A VERY PRACTICAL BUSINESS MAN, AMOS J. WALKER — MY FIRST WOMERN — AS WE READ BURNS — TO JAMES NEWTON MATTHEWS IN ANSWER TO A LETTER ON THE ANATOMY OF THE SONNET — SONG — WHEN WE THREE MEET — JOSH BILLINGS DEAD IN CALIFORNIA, OCTOBER 15, 1885 — WHICH ANE — THE EARTHQUAKE CHARLESTON, SEPTEMBER 1, 1886 — A FALL-CRICK VIEW OF THE EARTHQUAKE — LEWIS D. HAYES OBIT DECEMBER 28, 1886 — IN DAYS TO COME — LUTHER A. TODD OBIT JULY 27, 1887, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI — WHEN THE HEARSE COMES BACK — OUR OLD FRIEND NEVERFAIL — DAN O'SULLIVAN — JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY SEPULTURE—BOSTON, AUGUST 13, 1890 — MEREDITH NICHOLSON — GOD'S MERCY — CHRISTMAS GREETING — TO RUDYARD KIPLING — THE GUDEWIFE — TENNYSON ENGLAND, OCTOBER 5, 1892 — ROSAMOND C. BAILEY — MRS. BENJAMIN HARRISON WASHINGTON, OCTOBER 25, 1892 — GEORGE A. CARR GREENFIELD, JULY 21, 1914 — TO ELIZABETH OBIT JULY 8, 1893 — TO ALMON KEEFER INSCRIBED IN "TALES OF THE OCEAN" — TO—"THE J. W. R. LITERARY CLUB" — LITTLE MAID-O'-DREAMS — TO THE BOY WITH A COUNTRY DAN WALLINGFORD — CLAUDE MATTHEWS GOVERNOR OF INDIANA — TO LESLEY — THE JUDKINS PAPERS — TO THE QUIET OBSERVER ERASMUS WILSON, AFTER HIS LONG SILENCE — AMERICA'S THANKSGIVING 900 — WILLIAM PINKNEY FISHBACK — JOHN CLARK RIDPATH — NEW YEAR'S NURSERY JINGLE — TO THE MOTHER — TO MY SISTER A BELATED OFFERING FOR HER BIRTHDAY — A MOTTO — TO A POET ON HIS MARRIAGE MADISON CAWEIN — ART AND POETRY TO HOMER C. DAVENPORT — HER SMILE OF CHEER AND VOICE OF SONG ANNA HARRIS RANDALL — OLD INDIANY FRAGMENT INTENDED FOR A DINNER OF THE INDIANA SOCIETY OF CHICAGO — ABE MARTIN — O. HENRY WRITTEN IN THE CHARACTER OF "SHERRARD PLUMMER" — "MONA MACHREE" — WILLIAM McKINLEY CANTON, OHIO, SEPTEMBER 30, 1907 — BENJAMIN HARRISON ON THE UNVEILING OF HIS MONUMENT AT INDIANAPOLIS OCTOBER 27, 1908 — LEE O. HARRIS CHRISTMAS DAY—1909 — THE HIGHEST GOOD WRITTEN FOR A HIGH-SCHOOL ANNUAL — MY CONSCIENCE — MY BOY — THE OBJECT LESSON — THE END

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