Project Gutenberg's Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury, by James Whitcomb Riley

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: Pipes O'Pan at Zekesbury

Author: James Whitcomb Riley

Release Date: October 31, 2004 [EBook #13908]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PIPES O'PAN AT ZEKESBURY ***

Produced by Curtis A. Weyant, Project Manager, Keith M. Eckrich,
Post-Processor, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed
Proofreading Team

PIPES O' PAN AT ZEKESBURY

BY

JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY

INDIANAPOLIS

BOWEN-MERRILL CO., PUBLISHERS

1895

_TO MY BROTHER JOHN A. RILEY WITH MANY MEMORIES OF THE OLD HOME_

CONTENTS

PAGE

AT ZEKESBURY 13

DOWN AROUND THE RIVER POEMS

DOWN AROUND THE RIVER 37

KNEELING WITH HERRICK 39

ROMANCIN' 40

HAS SHE FORGOTTEN 43

A' OLD PLAYED-OUT SONG 45

THE LOST PATH 47

THE LITTLE TINY KICKSHAW 48

HIS MOTHER 49

KISSING THE ROD 50

HOW IT HAPPENED 51

BABYHOOD 53

THE DAYS GONE BY 54

MRS. MILLER 57

RHYMES OF RAINY DAYS

THE TREE-TOAD 79

A WORN-OUT PENCIL 80

THE STEPMOTHER 82

THE RAIN 83

THE LEGEND GLORIFIED 84

WHUR MOTHER IS 85

OLD MAN'S NURSERY RHYME 86

THREE DEAD FRIENDS 88

IN BOHEMIA 91

IN THE DARK 93

WET-WEATHER TALK 94

WHERE SHALL WE LAND 96

AN OLD SETTLER'S STORY 101

SWEET-KNOT AND GALAMUS

AN OLD SWEETHEART 159

MARTHY ELLEN 161

MOON-DROWNED 163

LONG A