Poetry

Afterwhiles

James Whitcomb Riley

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

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