THE POEMS AND PROSE
SKETCHES OF
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

ARMAZINDY

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S
SONS NEW YORK 1917

Copyright, 1894, 1898, by
James Whitcomb Riley

⁂ The publication of this volume in the Homestead Edition of the works of James Whitcomb Riley is made possible by the courtesy of The Bowen-Merrill Company, of Indianapolis, the original publishers of Mr. Riley’s books.

TO
HENRY EITEL

CONTENTS

PAGE
ARMAZINDY
Armazindy[3]
The Old Trundle-Bed[15]
Natural Perversities[17]
The Old School-Chum[20]
Writin’ Back to the Home-Folks[22]
The Blind Girl[25]
We Defer Things[28]
The Muskingum Valley[29]
For this Christmas[31]
A Poor Man’s Wealth[32]
The Little Red Ribbon[34]
“How did You Rest, Last Night?”[35]
A Good-Bye[37]
When Maimie Married[38]
“This Dear Child-Hearted Woman that is Dead”[40]
To a Poet-Critic[41]
An Old-Timer[42]
The Silent Victors[44]
Up and Down Old Brandywine[51]
Three Singing Friends[56]
A Noon Lull[59]
A Windy Day[60]
My Henry[62]
The Song I Never Sing[64]
To Edgar Wilson Nye[67]
Little David[68]
Out of the Hitherwhere[69]
Rabbit in the Cross-Ties[71]
Serenade—To Nora[72]
The Little White Hearse[74]
What Redress[76]
Dreamer, Say[77]
When Lide Married Him[79]
My Bride that is to Be[81]
“Ringworm Frank”[85]
An Empty Glove[87]
Our Own[89]
MAKE-BELIEVE AND CHILD-PLAY
The Frog[93]
“Twiggs and Tudens”[95]
Dolores[113]
When I do Mock[114]
My Mary[115]
Eros[118]
Orlie Wilde[119]
Leonainie[128]
To a Jilted Swain[130]
The Voices[131]
A Barefoot Boy[134]
The Youthful Patriot[135]
Ponchus Pilut[136]
A Twintorette[139]
Slumber-Song[140]
The Circus Parade[141]
Folks at Lonesomeville[143]
The Three Jolly Hunters[144]
The Little Dog-Woggy[146]
Charms[148]
A Few of the Bird-Family[150]
Through Sleepy-Land[151]
The Trestle and the Buck-Saw[153]
The King of Oo-Rinktum-Jing[154]
The Toy Penny-Dog[156]
Jargon-Jingle[157]
The Great Explorer[158]
The School-Boy’s Favorite[159]
Albumania[162]
The Little Mock-Man[165]
Summer-Time and Winter-Time[168]
Home-Made Riddles[169]
The Lovely Child[171]
The Yellowbird[172]
Envoy[173]