People Like Him (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
People liked him, not becauseHe was rich or known to fame;He had never won applauseAs a star in any game.His ...
People liked him, not becauseHe was rich or known to fame;He had never won applauseAs a star in any game.His ...
The patter of rain on the roof,The glint of the sun on the rose;Of life, these the warp and the ...
The path o' little children is the path I want to tread,Where green is every valley and every rose is ...
I know a wonderful land, I said,Where the skies are always blue,Where on chocolate drops are the children fed,And coconut ...
A BABY is the best to love,She always smiles when you draw near,Though ugly you may be of face,No handsomer ...
BACK UP Old Age and Wrinkled Face,Come, Selfish Grown-Up, quit the place,You Pessimist, depart!Now, Gloomy Gus and Doleful Frown,There is ...
To-day it's dirt and dust and steam,To-morrow it will be the same,And through it all the soul must dreamAnd try ...
These are the lessons I would learn, Not how to climb above all men, Not how the greatest sums to ...
OUT of the day you have taken what, Crown of laurels and wreath of bay? Smiles or frowns? Did you ...
We have room for the man with an honest dream,With his heart on fire and his eyes agleam;We have room ...
He brought me his report card from the teacher and he saidHe wasn't very proud of it and sadly bowed ...
HE took off his hat to the woman next door,But he wouldn't do that for his wife;He picked up the ...
When there's good health In the house, there is laughter everywhere,And the skies are bright and sunny and the roads ...
IT isn't the blue in the skies, Nor the song of the whispering trees, The light in a fair maiden's ...
Little girlie, kneeling there,Speaking low your evening prayer,In your cunning little nightieWith your pink toes peeping through,With your eyes closed ...
I might not ever scale the mountain heightsWhere all the great men stand in glory now; I may not ever ...
Because it rains when we wish it wouldn't,Because men do what they often shouldn't,Because crops fail, and plans go wrong-Some ...
Mothers dream such splendid dreams when their little babies smile, Dreams of wondrous deeds they'll do in the happy after- ...
I'd like to be the sort of man the flag could boast about;I'd like to be the sort of man ...
Tell me, what is half so sweetAs a baby's tiny feet,Pink and dainty as can be,Like a coral from the ...
Isn't it fine when the day is done,And the petty battles are lost or won,When the gold is made and ...
When I was just a little ladNot more than eight or nine,One special treat to make me gladWas set apart ...
SWEET is a rosebud, pink or red,And sweet are the blooms of May,And sweet is the fragrance about us shedOn ...
The sweetest soul I ever knewI Had suffered untold sorrow,Had wept full many a long night throughAnd feared the dark ...
LAUGHTER and song and mirth, Roses that drip with dew, These are the joys of earth; Sunshine and skies of ...
The road to laughter beckons me, The road to all that's best;The home road where I nightly see ...
It needed just an extra turn to make the bolt secure,A few more minutes on the job and then the ...
AH Nellie, you were always fair, and you were always good and true, I've sung about your wealth of hair, ...
The leaves are falling one by one,The Summer days are past and gone,The nights are cool and damp;The little children ...
Little mother, life's adventure calls your boy away,Yet he will return to you on some brighter day;Dry your tears and ...
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