Old-Fashioned Roses / by James Whitcomb Riley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Riley, James Whitcomb, 1849-1916, author.

Contributor:

Weales, Gerald, 1925-2013, associated name, former owner.

Longmans, Green, and Co., publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indiana--Poetry.

Indiana.

Physical Description:

[2], ix, [1], 145, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates : illustration ; 17 cm

Edition:

Twenty-Sixth Impression

Manufacture:

London : Printed by Spottiswoode and Co., Ltd.,

Place of Publication:

London : Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903.

Contents:

Old-Fashioned Roses. Proem; The Days Gone By; An Old Sweetheart of Mine; A Fruit-Piece; The Little White Hearse; "Curly Locks"; "God Bless Us Every One!"; Little Tommy Smith; Afterwhiles; Herr Weiser; The Beautiful City; Lockerbie Street; Das Krist Kindel; The Orchard Lands of Long Ago; The South Wind and the Sun; The Lost Kiss; Ike Walton's Prayer; Our Kind of a Man; The Harper; The Ripest Peach; Old Aunt Mary's; Illileo; A Bride; Song; When Bessie Died; The Shower; A Life-Lesson; The Scrawl; Away; Who Bides His Time; Laughter Holding Both His Sides; And This is Fame; The Beetle; The Brook-Song; The Old Man; To Robert Burns

Sonnets. Pan; Dusk; June; Silence; Puck; Sleep; Her Hair; To the Cricket; The Serenade; When She Comes Home

Hoosier Dialect. Griggsby's Station; Knee-Deep in June; Little Orphant Annie; The Airly Days; Like His Mother Used to Make; The Little Town o' Tailholt; Nothin' to Say; The Old Swimmin'-Hole; Thoughts fer the Discuraged Farmer; A Summer's Day; To My Old Neighbor, William Leachman; When the Frost is on the Punkin; My Philosophy; On the Death of Little Mahala Ashcraft; The Clover.

Notes:

Frontispiece portrait of author has tissue guard.

Local Notes:

PS2704.O35 1903: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by the Gerald Weales Estate has vellum spine stamped and ruled in gilt with light blue title label; light blue boards with top edge gilt stained.

OCLC:

1594045821