Story-Time (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
"TELL us a story," comes the cry From little lips when nights are ...
"TELL us a story," comes the cry From little lips when nights are ...
Since men with life must purchase life And some must die that more may live, Unto the ...
FULL many a flag the breeze has kissed;Through ages long the morning sun Has risen over the early mistThe flags ...
Some have the gift of song and some possess the gift of silver speech,Some have the gift of leadership and ...
'Taint nothin' to laugh at as I can see!If you'd been stung by a bumble bee,An' your nose wuz swelled ...
I don't know what it's all about, but Ma says that she wants to knowIf spirits in the other world ...
Lady in the show case carriage, Do not think that I'm a bear; Not for worlds would I disparage ...
Drowsy old summer, with nothing to do,I'd like to be drowsin' an' dreamin' with you;I'd like to stretch out in ...
I'm never alone in the garden, he said. "I'm never alone with the flowers.It seems like I'm meeting the ...
I look into the faces of the people passing by, The glad ones and the sad ones, and the lined ...
YE HO, for a sight of the land that I love,And her flag floating high on the breeze;Ye ho, for ...
Last night I caught him on his knees and looking underneath the bed,And oh, the guilty look he wore, and ...
There are different kinds of heroes, there are some you hear about.They get their pictures printed, and their names the ...
'Tis a little old house with a squeak in the stairs,And a porch that seems made for just two easy ...
When mother baked an angel cake we kids would gather roundAn' watch her gentle hands at work, an' never make ...
When God first viewed the rose He'd made He smiled, and thought it passing fair; Upon the bloom His ...
Lord, we've had our little wrangles, an' we've had our little bouts;There's many a time, I reckon, that we have ...
YOU pay what you owe to your neighbor, I know,You do the square thing by your brother,Your word is as ...
A boy and his dad on a fishing trip- There is a glorious fellowship!Father and son and the open sky, ...
Bill Jones, who goes to school with me,Is the saddest boy I ever see.He's just so 'fraid he runs awayWhen ...
The old days, the old days, how oft the poets sing,The days of hope at dewy morn, the days of ...
Though victory's proof of the skill you possess,Defeat is the proof of your grit;A weakling can smile in his days ...
A year is filled with glad events: The best is Christmas day,But every holiday presents Its special round ...
My Crown Prince was fine and fair, a sorrowfulfather said,"But he marched away with his regiment andthey tell me that ...
DOWN the lanes of boyhood, let me go once more, Let me tread the paths of youth that I have ...
UNDER a tree where the breezes blow, There is the spot that it's good to go With the children bronzed ...
She is gentle, kind and fair,And there's silver in her hair;She has known the touch of sorrow,But the smile of ...
I'd like to steal a day and beAll alone with little me,Little me that used to runEverywhere in search of ...
You can buy, if you've got money, all you need to drink and eat,You can pay for bread and honey, ...
People liked him, not becauseHe was rich or known to fame;He had never won applauseAs a star in any game.His ...
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