Endurance (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
YOU never hear a woman boastOf her endurance, yet I vowThe tiniest mite o' a woman hasMore courage than a ...
YOU never hear a woman boastOf her endurance, yet I vowThe tiniest mite o' a woman hasMore courage than a ...
I have often been asked by the people I knowed,To tell 'em the way that a cow puncher rode.Now them ...
I metabloke in Collun-street - A cove I yustanoWhen I wus workin Southoss, A yeerertwo ago.Sezzi, "Well, owye kumminup? I ...
When th' dawn is jest a-breakin',An' th' runnin' lights are dim,An' th' risin' sun is makin'Streaks scross th' ocean's rim;When ...
Once I dremt while I was sleepin'That the earth had passed away,And the boss of all creationMade a work on ...
When Pa comes home, I'm at the door,An' then he grabs me off the floorAn' throws me up an' catches ...
Some day when I'm rich (said Bill) I'm going to leave the sea,Sail an' steam alike 'll see the livin' ...
Most folks, as I've noticed, in pleasure an' strife,Are always expecting too much out of life.They wail an' they fretJust ...
Winter is here and it aint so nice tendin' the feeders and choppin' ice.Nasty weather to stir about. ...
There've been times we'd disagree Somethin' awful, Ma an' me; Times when I would bang the door Never to come ...
Swashin' down the quarter-deck, scuppers runnin' free,All th' gang in workin' white, happy as c'n be;Smell o' coffee comin' through ...
Oh Mary this London's a wonderful sightWith people here workin' by day and by nightThey don't sow potatoes, nor barley, ...
JanuaryWhen snow's on topsan' hearths are cheery,at a merry makingchoose thi dearie.FebruaryWhen birds beginTo chirp "Be mine!"Ask her to beThi ...
No use frettin' when the rain comes down,No use grievin' when the gray clouds frown,No use sighin' when the wind ...
This man is busy saddlin' up a skeery half broke colt.It is too soon yet to trust him and he ...
That nicht the dancin' schule was dune, We had a ball to end the spree;An' Willie Stewart played the tune, ...
It is right interestin' how hosses flight flies.They stand so both tails protect both pair of eyes.They git close together, ...
On a lonely selection far out in the West An old woman works all the day without rest, And she ...
You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine, Your harps and your tabors and cymbals and a', But ...
'Twas on the famous Empire run, Whose sun does never set, Whose grass and water, so they say, Have never ...
'Twas the horse thief, Andy Regan, that was hunted like a dog By the troopers of the upper Murray side, ...
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