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The Old Soldier’s Story

by James Whitcomb Riley

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  1. 1Title page
  2. 2The Old Soldier’s Story as Told Before the New England Society in N…
  3. 3Somep’n Common-Like
  4. 4Monsieur le Secretaire [John Clark Ridpath]
  5. 5A Phantom
  6. 6In the Corridor
  7. 7Louella Wainie
  8. 8The Text
  9. 9William Brown
  10. 10Why
  11. 11The Touch of Loving Hands Imitated
  12. 12A Test
  13. 13A Song for Christmas
  14. 14Sun and Rain
  15. 15With Her Face
  16. 16My Night
  17. 17The Hour Before the Dawn
  18. 18Good-by, Old Year
  19. 19False and True
  20. 20A Ballad From April
  21. 21Brudder Sims
  22. 22Deformed
  23. 23Faith
  24. 24The Lost Thrill
  25. 25At Dusk
  26. 26Another Ride From Ghent to Aix
  27. 27In the Heart of June
  28. 28Dreams
  29. 29Because
  30. 30To the Cricket
  31. 31The Old-Fashioned Bible
  32. 32Uncomforted
  33. 33What They Said
  34. 34After the Frost
  35. 35Charles H. Phillips — Obit November 5th, 1881
  36. 36When It Rains
  37. 37An Assassin
  38. 38Best of All
  39. 39Bin A-Fishin’
  40. 40Uncle Dan’l in Town Over Sunday
  41. 41Soldiers Here To-Day
  42. 42Shadow and Shine
  43. 43That Night
  44. 44August
  45. 45The Guide — Imitated
  46. 46Sutter’s Claim — Imitated
  47. 47Her Light Guitar
  48. 48While Cigarettes to Ashes Turn
  49. 49Two Sonnets to the June-Bug
  50. 50Autographic — For an Album
  51. 51An Impromptu on Roller Skates
  52. 52Written in Bunner’s “Airs From Arcady”
  53. 53In the Afternoon
  54. 54At Madame Manicure’s
  55. 55A Caller From Boone — Benj. F. Johnson Visits the Editor
  56. 56Lord Bacon Written as a Joke and Ascribed to a Very Practical Busin…
  57. 57My First Womern
  58. 58As We Read Burns
  59. 59To James Newton Matthews in Answer to a Letter on the Anatomy of th…
  60. 60Song
  61. 61When We Three Meet
  62. 62Josh Billings — Dead in California, October 15, 1885
  63. 63Which Ane
  64. 64The Earthquake — Charleston, September 1, 1886
  65. 65A Fall-Crick View of the Earthquake
  66. 66Lewis D. Hayes — Obit December 28, 1886
  67. 67In Days to Come
  68. 68Luther A. Todd — Obit July 27, 1887, Kansas City, Missouri
  69. 69When the Hearse Comes Back
  70. 70Our Old Friend Neverfail
  71. 71Dan O’Sullivan
  72. 72John Boyle O’Reilly — Sepulture — Boston, August 13, 1890
  73. 73Meredith Nicholson
  74. 74God’s Mercy — Christmas Greeting
  75. 75To Rudyard Kipling
  76. 76The Gudewife
  77. 77Tennyson — England, October 5, 1892
  78. 78Rosamond C. Bailey
  79. 79Mrs. Benjamin Harrison — Washington, October 25, 1892
  80. 80George A. Carr — Greenfield, July 21, 1914
  81. 81To Elizabeth — Obit July 8, 1893
  82. 82To Almon Keefer — Inscribed in “Tales of the Ocean”
  83. 83To — “The J. W. R. Literary Club”
  84. 84Little Maid-o’-Dreams
  85. 85To the Boy With a Country Dan Wallingford
  86. 86Claude Matthews — Governor of Indiana
  87. 87To Lesley
  88. 88The Judkins Papers
  89. 89To the Quiet Observer — Erasmus Wilson, After His Long Silence
  90. 90America’s Thanksgiving 900
  91. 91William Pinkney Fishback
  92. 92John Clark Ridpath
  93. 93New Year’s Nursery Jingle
  94. 94To the Mother — To My Sister — A Belated Offering for Her Birthday
  95. 95A Motto — To a Poet on His Marriage Madison Cawein
  96. 96Art and Poetry to Homer C. Davenport
  97. 97Her Smile of Cheer and Voice of Song — Anna Harris Randall
  98. 98Old Indiany — Fragment — Intended for a Dinner of the Indiana Socie…
  99. 99Abe Martin
  100. 100O. Henry Written in the Character of “Sherrard Plummer”
  101. 101“Mona Machree”
  102. 102William McKinley — Canton, Ohio, September 30, 1907
  103. 103Benjamin Harrison on the Unveiling of His Monument at Indianapolis…
  104. 104Lee O. Harris Christmas Day — 1909
  105. 105The Highest Good Written for a High-School Annual — My Conscience
  106. 106My Boy
  107. 107The Object Lesson

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