CONTENTS AS CREATED 56 AS MY UNCLE USED TO SAY 126 AT SEA 160 BACKWARD LOOK, A 155 BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH, THE 123 BOYS, THE 104 "BRAVE REFRAIN, A" 113 DREAMER, SAY 61 FEEL IN THE CHRIS'MAS AIR 52 FOR YOU 50 GOOD MAN, A 132 HER BEAUTIFUL HANDS 189 HIS ROOM 38 HONEY DRIPPING FROM THE COMB 125 "HOW DID YOU REST, LAST NIGHT?" 94 IN THE EVENING 115 IT'S GOT TO BE 107 JACK-IN-THE-BOX 100 JIM 117 JOHN MCKEEN 165 JUST TO BE GOOD 26 KNEELING WITH HERRICK 138 LAUGHTER HOLDING BOTH HIS SIDES 81 MULBERRY TREE, THE 46 MY DANCIN' DAYS IS OVER 184 MY FRIEND 29 NATURAL PERVERSITIES 70 NOT ALWAYS GLAD WHEN WE SMILE 36 OLD DAYS, THE 135 OLD GUITAR, THE 161 OLD TRUNDLE-BED, THE 64 OUR BOYHOOD HAUNTS 182 OUR KIND OF A MAN 92 OUR OWN 63 "OUT OF REACH?" 112 OUT OF THE HITHERWHERE 98 PLAINT HUMAN, THE 43 QUEST, THE 44 RAINY MORNING, THE 141 REACH YOUR HAND TO ME 143 SCRAWL, A 75 SONG OF PARTING 90 SONG OF YESTERDAY, THE 82 SPRING SONG AND A LATER, A 137 "THEM OLD CHEERY WORDS" 172 THINKIN' BACK 31 THROUGH SLEEPY-LAND 170 TO MY OLD FRIEND, WILLIAM LEACHMAN 145 TO THE JUDGE 177 WE MUST BELIEVE 130 WE MUST GET HOME 19 WHERE-AWAY 57 WHO BIDES HIS TIME 68 WRITIN' BACK TO THE HOME-FOLKS 76 RILEY LOVE-LYRICS By James Whitcomb Riley With Life Pictures By William B. Dyer CONTENTS PAGE Blooms of May 185 Discouraging Model, A 133 "Dream" 46 Farmer Whipple—Bachelor 167 Has She Forgotten? 181 He and I 83 He Called Her In 50 Her Beautiful Eyes 60 Her Hair 128 Her Face and Brow 63 Her Waiting Face 71 Home at Night 122 How it Happened 95 Ike Walton's Prayer 107 Illileo 111 Judith 79 Last Night and This 131 Leonainie 68 Let Us Forget 64 Lost Path, The 87 My Bride That Is To Be 90 My Mary 117 Nothin' to Say 103 Old Played-out Song, A' 31 Old Sweetheart of Mine, An 23 Old Year and the New, The 72 Out-worn Sappho, An 37 Passing of a Heart, The 44 Rival, The 148 Rose, The 178 Sermon of the Rose, The 189 Song of Long Ago, A 160 Suspense 136 Their Sweet Sorrow 76 To Hear Her Sing 146 Tom Van Arden 139 Touches of Her Hands, The 157 Variation, A 151 Very Youthful Affair, A 36 When Age Comes On 164 When Lide Married Him 125 When My Dreams Come True 99 When She Comes Home 67 Where Shall We Land 154 Wife-Blesséd, The 115 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Love-Lyrics Frontispiece Illustrations—Tailpiece xx An Old Sweetheart of Mine 23 And I Light My Pipe in Silence 24 The Voices of My Children 25 The Pink Sunbonnet 26 When First I Kissed Her 27 (untitled image) 29 My Wife is Standing There 30 A' Old Played-Out Song 33 A' Old Played-Out Song—Tailpiece 35 A Very Youthful Affair 36 An Out-worn Sappho 41 An Out-worn Sappho—Tailpiece 43 The Passing of a Heart—Title 44 The Passing of a Heart—Tailpiece 45 "Dream" 47 "Dream"—Tailpiece 49 He Called Her In—Title 50 A Dark and Eerie Child 51 When She First Came to Me 57 He Called Her In—Tailpiece 59 Her Beautiful Eyes 61