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Afterwhiles

by James Whitcomb Riley

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

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