HE'S GO' HITCH UP, CHRIS'MUS-DAY, AN' COME TAKE ME BACK AGAIN WHEN WE DROVE TO HARMONY A BIG, HOLLOW, OLD OAK-TREE, WHICH HAD BEEN BLOWN DOWN BY A STORM THE YOUNG FOXES IN IT, ON THE HEARTH BESIDE HER AN' ALL BE POETS AN' ALL RECITE ALONG THE BRINK OF WILD BROOK-WAYS I LIKE TO WATCH HIM WHILE KATE PICKS BY, YET LOOKS NOT THERE LEND ME THE BREATH OF A FRESHENING GALE BOW TO ME IN THE WINDER THERE OUR "OLD-KRISS"-MILKMAN THE CHILDISH DREAMS IN HIS WISE OLD HEAD AFTERWHILES By James Whitcomb Riley CONTENTS PROEM (AKA "Afterwhiles") Herr Weiser The Beautiful City Lockerbie Street Das Krist Kindel Anselmo A Home-Made Fairy Tale The South Wind and the Sun The Lost Kiss The Sphinx If I knew What Poets Know Ike Walton's Prayer A Rough Sketch Our Kind of a Man The Harper Old Aunt Mary's Illileo The King A Bride The Dead Lover A Song When Bessie Died The Shower A Life Lesson A Scrawl Away Who Bides His Time From the Headboard of a Grave in Paraguay Laughter Holding Both His Sides Fame The Ripest Peach A Fruit Piece Their Sweet Sorrow John McKeen Out of Nazareth September Dark We To Sigh Instead of Sing The Blossoms on the Trees Last Night— And This A Discouraging Model Back From a Two-years' Sentence The Wandering Jew Becalmed To Santa Claus Where the Children used to Play A Glimpse of Pan SONNETS Pan Dusk June Silence Sleep Her Hair Dearth A Voice From the Farm The Serenade Art and Love Longfellow Indiana Time Grant IN DIALECT Old Fashioned Roses Griggsby's Station Knee Deep in June When The Hearse Comes Back A Canary At the Farm A Liz Town Humorist Kingry's Mill Joney Like His Mother Used To Make The Train Misser Granny Old October Jim To Robert Burns A New Year's Time at Willards's The Town Karnteel Regardin' Terry Hut Leedle Dutch Baby Down On Wriggle Crick When De Folks Is Gone The Little Town O' Tailholt Little Orphant Annie SONGS OF HOME By James Whitcomb Riley With Pictures By Will Vawter