Author:James Whitcomb Riley

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James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916)

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A beloved American writer and poet called the "Hoosier poet" and America's "Children's Poet" made a start writing newspaper verse in Hoosier dialect for the Indianapolis Journal in 1875.

James Whitcomb Riley

Works

Collections

• The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley (1916, Bobbs-Merrill ed.) in 10 vols.

  Volume I (transcription project)

Poetry

• in The Old Swimmin-hole, and 'Leven More Poems as Benj. F. Johnson, of Boone (1883) (External scan)

  "The Old Swimmin' Hole"

  "When the Frost is on the Punkin"

• The Boss Girl (1885) (External scan)

• in Afterwhiles (1887) (External scan)

  "Nothin' to Say"

• Old-Fashioned Roses (1888)

• Nye and Riley's Railway Guide (1888) Poems by Riley, prose by Bill Nye (External scan)

• Pipes o' Pan at Zekesbury (1888) (External scan)

• in Rhymes of Childhood (1890) (External scan)

  "The Raggedy Man"

  "The Fishin' Party"

  "Little Orphant Annie"

• Neighborly Poems (1891)

• The Flying Islands of the Night (1891) (External scan)

• in Sketches in Prose, and occasional verses (1891) (External scan)

  "Old Fashioned Roses"

• Green fields and running brooks (1892) (External scan)

• Poems Here at Home (1893) (External scan)

• in Armazindy (1894) (External scan)

  "Natural Perversities"

• The Days Gone By, and Other Poems (1895) Poems and prose

• A Tinkle of Bells, and Other Poems (1895) Poems and prose

• A Child-World (1896) (External scan)

• Rubáiyát of Doc Sifers (1897) (External scan)

• The Golden Year (1898) Daily poems

• in Old-Fashioned Roses (1899) (External scan)

  "Out to Old Aunt Mary's"

• Home-Folks (1900) (External scan)

• The Book of Joyous Children (1902) (External scan)

• "An Old Sweetheart of Mine" (1902)

• His Pa's Romance (1903) (External scan)

• "A Defective Santa Claus" (1904)

• Riley Songs O' Cheer (1905) (External scan)

• While the Heart Beats Young (1906) (External scan)

• in Morning (1907) (External scan)

  "Longfellow"

  "Thinkin' Back"

• Riley Songs of Summer (1908) (External scan)

• The Riley Baby Book (1913) Autograph verses (facsimile) (External scan)

• Riley Songs of Friendship (1915) (External scan)

Works about Riley

• In Lockerbie Street: a little appreciation of James Whitcomb Riley (1909) a book by Mabel Potter Daggett. (transcription project)
• Reminiscences of James Whitcomb Riley (1916) by Clara E. Laughlin. (External scan)
• "James Whitcomb Riley", a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar.
• "Tribute to James Whitcomb Riley" on his 66th birthday, by Philadelphia poet Florence Earle Coates.