Runner McGee: (Who Had “Return if Possible” Orders) (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
YOU'VE heard a good deal of the telephone wires," He said as we sat at our ease,And talked ...
YOU'VE heard a good deal of the telephone wires," He said as we sat at our ease,And talked ...
The smell of arnica is strong, And mother's time is spentIn rubbing father's arms and back With burning ...
"TELL us a story," comes the cry From little lips when nights are ...
Little woman, hourly sitting, Something for a soldier knitting, What in fancy can you see? Many pictures ...
Old women say that men don't knowThe pain through which all mothers go,And maybe that is true, and yetI vow ...
Time was I used to worry and I'd sit around an' sigh,And think with every ache I got that I ...
Since men with life must purchase life And some must die that more may live, Unto the ...
Whatever the task and whatever the risk, wherever the flag's in air,The funny man with his sunny ways is ...
At 10 p. m.COME, let us make merry with innocent mirth, Let us drink to the year that is dying; ...
PROUD is the state of its millions of men, And proud is the state of its name; In its borders ...
I don't know what they'll put him at, or what his post may be; I cannot ...
The stick-together families are happier by farThan the brothers and the sisters who take separate highways are.The gladdest people living ...
He tried to travel No Man's Land, that's guarded well with guns, He tried to race the road of ...
IT was thick with Prussian troopers, it was foul with German guns;Every tree that cast a shadow was a sheltering ...
When Pa came home last night he had a package in his hand,Now Ma," said he, "I've something here which ...
When an empty sleeve or a sightless eyeOr a legless form I see,I breathe my thanks to my God on ...
The doctor leads a busy life, he wages war with death;Long hours he spends to help the one who's fighting ...
I'm sorry for a fellow if he cannot look and seeIn a grate fire's friendly flaming all the joys which ...
The green is in the meadow and the blue is in the sky,And all of Nature's artists have their colors ...
Lord, we've had our little wrangles, an' we've had our little bouts;There's many a time, I reckon, that we have ...
An apple tree beside the way,Drinking the sunshine day by dayAccording to the Master's plan,Had been a faithful friend to ...
OUT of the darkness and shadow of death,Out of the anguish that wells from the tomb,Into the splendor of spiritual ...
They have said you needn't go to the front to face the foe;They have left you with your women and ...
I may never be a hero, I am past the limit now,There are pencil marks of silver Time has left ...
Bit of a priest and a bit of sailor,Bit of a doctor and bit of a tailor,Bit of a lawyer, ...
The things that make a soldier great and send him out to die,To face the flaming cannon's mouth, nor ever ...
There never comes a lonely day but that we miss the laughing waysOf those who used to walk with us ...
Let others sing their songs of war And chant their hymns of splendid death, Let others praise the soldiers' ways ...
My Crown Prince was fine and fair, a sorrowfulfather said,"But he marched away with his regiment andthey tell me that ...
You can tyke h'it from me, 'e's as cool as a cucumber,Never goes balmy h'or loses 'is 'ead,Nothing h'at all ...
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