No Better Land Than This (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
If I knew a better country in this glorious world todayWhere a man's work hours are shorter and he's drawing ...
If I knew a better country in this glorious world todayWhere a man's work hours are shorter and he's drawing ...
With a twinkle in his eyeHe'd come gayly walkin' byAn' he'd whistle to the children An' he'd beckon 'em to ...
My land is where the kind folks are,And where the friends are true,Where comrades brave will travel farSome kindly deed ...
SOMEBODY spoke a cheering word,Somebody praised his labor,And something deep in his soul was stirred,That night he smiled at his ...
It's bedtime, and we lock the door,Put out the lights--the day is o'er;All that can come of good or ill,The ...
He's taken out his papers, an' he's just like you an' me.He's sworn to love the Stars and Stripes an' ...
The good Lord understood us when He taught us how to smile;He knew we couldn't stand it to be solemn ...
Once the house was lovely, but it's lonely here to-day,For time has come an' stained its walls an' called the ...
BEIN' uncle to the kids,Laughin' lips an' drowsy lidsGrimy hands an' tattered clothes,Cheeks as red as any rose;Willie Browns an' ...
The children bring us laughter, and the children bring us tears;They string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread ...
Out of it all shall come splendor and gladness; Out of the madness and out of the sadness, ...
I LIKE the homes where a Teddy BearMonopolizes the best arm chair,Where the sofa a rag doll occupiesAnd a train ...
Success is being friendly when another needs a friend;It's in the cheery words you speak, and in the coins you ...
LAUGHTER and song and mirth, Roses that drip with dew, These are the joys of earth; Sunshine and skies of ...
Under the roof where the laughter rings, That's where I long to be;There are all of the glorious things, Meaning ...
I would not be too wise--so very wise That I must sneer at simple songs and creeds,And let the glare ...
This is the thing we fight:A cry of terror in the night;A ship on work of mercy bent-A carrier of ...
OUR children are our monuments, The little ones we leave behind, If they are good and brave and kind,And labor ...
I would not be too wise-so very wiseThat I must sneer at simple songs and creeds,And let the glare of ...
I like 'em, in the winter when their cheeks are slightly pale,I like 'em in the spring time when the ...
THERE'S the mother at the doorway, and the children at the gate,And the little parlor windows with the curtains white ...
They spoke it bravely, grimly, in their darkest hours of doubt;They spoke it when their hope was low and when ...
If you would please me when I've passed away Let not your grief embitter you. Be brave; ...
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