Author:James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley
(1849–1916)

James Whitcomb Riley

Works

Collections

• Poems by James Whitcomb Riley (1913, published for the British market) (start transcription)
• Riley Favorites (1913) (start transcription)
• The James Whitcomb Riley Reader (1915) (start transcription)
• The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley (1916, Bobbs-Merrill ed.) in 10 vols. (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
• The Hoosier Book of Riley Verse (1916) (start transcription)

Poetry

• The Old Swimmin-hole, and 'Leven More Poems as Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone (1883) (start transcription), later published as Neghborly Poems on Friendship Grief and Farm-Life or Neghborly Poems and Dialect Sketches (1891) (start transcription) (1899 edition (start transcription))

  "The Old Swimmin' Hole"

  "When the Frost is on the Punkin"

• The Boss Girl (1885) (start transcription)
• Afterwhiles (1887) (start transcription)

  "Nothin' to Say"

• Nye and Riley's Railway Guide (1888, republished as Fun, Wit, and Humor, Poems and Yarns: Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor, Poems and Yarns, On the Shoestring Limited, with poems by Riley, prose by Bill Nye) (start transcription)

  "Out to Old Aunt Mary's"

• Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury (1888) (start transcription) (1892 edition with a different interlude (start transcription))
• Old-Fashioned Roses (1889) (start transcription)
• Rhymes of Childhood (1890) (start transcription) and 1894 (start transcription)

  "The Raggedy Man"

  "The Fishin' Party"

  "Little Orphant Annie"

• The Flying Islands of the Night (1891) (start transcription) (1899 edition (start transcription), 1913 illustrated edition (start transcription))
• Sketches in Prose, and occasional verses (1891) (start transcription)

  "Old Fashioned Roses"

• Green Fields and Running Brooks (1892) (start transcription)
• Poems Here at Home (1893) (start transcription)
• Armazindy (1894) (start transcription)

  "Natural Perversities"

• The Days Gone By and Other Poems (1895) (start transcription)
• A Tinkle of Bells and Other Poems (1895) (start transcription)
• A Child-World (1896) (start transcription)
• Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers (1897) (start transcription)
• The Golden Year (1898) Daily poems (start transcription)
• Riley Love-Lyrics (1899) (start transcription)
• Home-Folks (1900) (start transcription)
• Riley Farm-Rhymes (1901) (start transcription)
• Eccentric Mr. Clark (1901) (start transcription)
• The Book of Joyous Children (1902) (start transcription)
• "An Old Sweetheart of Mine" (1902) (start transcription)
• His Pa's Romance (1903) (start transcription)
• A Defective Santa Claus (1904)
• Gems from Riley (1904) (start transcription)
• Out to Old Aunt Mary's (1904) (start transcription)
• Riley Songs o' Cheer (1905) (start transcription)
• Riley Child-Rhymes (1905) (start transcription)
• While the Heart Beats Young (1906) (start transcription)
• The Runaway Boy (1906, with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts) (start transcription)
• The Boys of the Old Glee Club (1907) (start transcription)
• The Raggedy Man (1907, with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts) (start transcription)
• Morning (1907) (start transcription)

  "Longfellow"

  "Thinkin' Back"

• Harvest of Thoughts (by Aaron Belford Thompson, introduction by Riley, 1907) (start transcription)
• Jewels from James Whitcomb Riley (1907) (start transcription)
• Riley Songs of Summer (1908) (start transcription)
• Little Orphan Annie (1908, also titled Ef You Don't Watch Out) (start transcription)
• Home Again with Me (1908) (start transcription)
• Riley Roses (1909) (start transcription)
• A Hoosier Romance (1909) (start transcription)
• Old School Day Romances (1909) (start transcription)
• Flowers and Fruits from Riley (1909) (start transcription)
• Riley Songs of Home (1910) (start transcription)
• The Girl I Loved (1910) (start transcription)
• Down Around the River and Other Poems (1911) (start transcription)
• The Lockerbie Book of Riley Verse (1911) (start transcription)
• When She Was About Sixteen (1911) (start transcription)
• When the Frost Is on the Punkin and Other Poems (1911) (start transcription)
• The Boy Lives on Our Farm (1911, with illustrations by Ethel Franklin Betts)
• Knee-Deep in June and Other Poems (1912) (start transcription)
• The Prayer Perfect and Other Poems (1912) (start transcription)
• All the Year Round (1912, with illustrations by Gustave Baumann)
• The Riley Baby Book (1913) Autograph verses (facsimile) (start transcription)
• The Rose (1913) (start transcription)
• Good-Bye Jim (1913) (start transcription)
• The Glad Sweet Face of Her (1914) (start transcription)
• Riley Songs of Friendship (1915) (start transcription)
• The Old Soldier's Story (1915) (start transcription)
• The Old Times (1915) (start transcription)
• The Name of Old Glory: Poems of Patriotism (1917, with an introduction by Booth Tarkington) (start transcription)
• Riley Hoosier Stories (1917) (start transcription)
• Riley Fairy Tales (1923) (start transcription)

Individual poems

• The American Flag
• "When My Dreams Come True"

Works about Riley

• Early Recollections of James Whitcomb Riley (1902, by Major Ridgeway) (start transcription)
• James Whitcomb Riley in Prose and Picture (1903, John A. Howland) (start transcription)
• In Honor of James Whitcomb Riley (1906) (start transcription)
• Some Indiana Writers and Poets (1908, by Alonzo Leora Rice) (start transcription)
• In Lockerbie Street: a little appreciation of James Whitcomb Riley (1909) a book by Mabel Potter Daggett.
• "Riley, James Whitcomb," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Riley, James Whitcomb" in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
• "James Whitcomb Riley" (1913), a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
• "Tribute to James Whitcomb Riley" (1915) on his 66th birthday, by Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates.
• Reminiscences of James Whitcomb Riley (1916) by Clara E. Laughlin. (start transcription)
• A Tribute to James Whitcomb Riley and Other Poems (1917, Thomas Howard Hudson) (start transcription)
• The Youth of James Whitcomb Riley: Fortune's Way with the Poet from Infancy to Manhood (1919, by Marcus Dickey) (start transcription)
• The Faith of the People's Poet, James Whitcomb Riley (1920, Daniel L. Marsh) (start transcription)
• Riley Readings with Living Pictures (1921) by Laura Christine Wegner, Riley's poems converted into stage presentations (start transcription)
• Orphan Annie Story Book (1921 by Johnny Gruelle, based on a poem by Riley and dedicated to his memory) (start transcription)
• The Vinegar Buyer: Sharp Sayings of Sharp People (1922, by Ezra Kendall, based on the poem "Jap Miller") (start transcription)
• Commemorative Tribute to James Whitcomb Riley (1922, by Hamlin Garland) (start transcription)
• The Maturity of James Whitcomb Riley: Fortune's Way with the Poet in the Prime of Life and After (1922, by Marcus Dickey) (start transcription)