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Riley Songs of Home

by James Whitcomb Riley

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  1. 1Dedication — We Must Get Home
  2. 2Just to Be Good
  3. 3My Friend
  4. 4Thinkin’ Back
  5. 5Not Always Glad When We Smile
  6. 6His Room
  7. 7The Plaint Human
  8. 8The Quest
  9. 9The Mulberry Tree
  10. 10For You
  11. 11A Feel in the Chris’mas-Air
  12. 12As Created
  13. 13Where-Away
  14. 14Dreamer, Say
  15. 15Our Own
  16. 16The Old Trundle-Bed
  17. 17Who Bides His Time
  18. 18Natural Perversities
  19. 19A Scrawl
  20. 20Writin’ Back to the Home-Folks
  21. 21Laughter Holding Both His Sides
  22. 22The Song of Yesterday
  23. 23Song of Parting
  24. 24Our Kind of a Man
  25. 25“How Did You Rest, Last Night?”
  26. 26Out of the Hitherwhere
  27. 27Jack-in-the-Box
  28. 28The Boys
  29. 29It’s Got to Be
  30. 30“Out of Reach?”
  31. 31“A Brave Refrain”
  32. 32In the Evening
  33. 33Jim
  34. 34The Best Is Good Enough
  35. 35Honey Dripping From the Comb
  36. 36As My Uncle Used to Say
  37. 37We Must Believe
  38. 38A Good Man
  39. 39The Old Days
  40. 40A Spring Song and a Later
  41. 41Kneeling With Herrick
  42. 42The Rainy Morning
  43. 43Reach Your Hand to Me
  44. 44To My Old Friend, William Leachmam
  45. 45A Backward Look
  46. 46At Sea
  47. 47The Old Guitar
  48. 48John McKEEN
  49. 49Through Sleepy-Land
  50. 50“Them Old Cheery Words”
  51. 51To the Judge
  52. 52Our Boyhood Haunts
  53. 53My Dancin’-Days Is Over
  54. 54Her Beautiful Hands

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