He Earned His Way (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
rose unto the bights of fameAnd with the great men stood, He heard the people cheer his name And speak ...
rose unto the bights of fameAnd with the great men stood, He heard the people cheer his name And speak ...
IT'S one o' my idees that men ain't all of fightin' stock, They ain't all built fer ploughin' or fer ...
Men talk too much of gold and fame,And not enough about a name;And yet a good name's better farThan all ...
A BABY is the best to love,She always smiles when you draw near,Though ugly you may be of face,No handsomer ...
The great were once as you.They whom men magnify to-dayOnce groped and blundered on life's way,Were fearful of themselves, and ...
Mother and the baby! Oh, I know no lovelier pair,For all the dreams of all the world are hovering 'round ...
A LITTLE more of loving, a little less of pain,A little more of sunshine, a little less of rain;A little ...
SOMEBODY spoke a cheering word,Somebody praised his labor,And something deep in his soul was stirred,That night he smiled at his ...
The miser thinks he's living when he's hoarding up his gold;The soldier calls it living when he's doing something bold;The ...
DO you know why men dig ditches And why others till the soil? Do you know why men seek riches, ...
Over the hills of time to the valley of endless years;Over the roads of woe to the land that is ...
The miser thinks he's living when he's hoarding up his gold;The soldier calls it living when he's doing something bold;The ...
WALL have fights to make with self,And these are the bitterest fights of all,Worse than the fight for a hoard ...
If you would rise above the throngAnd seek the crown of fame, You must do more than drift alongAnd merely ...
Some folks leave home for money And some leave home for fame, Some seek skies always sunny, And some depart ...
He shall be great who serves his country well. He shall be loved who ever guards her fame.His worth the ...
Success is being friendly when another needs a friend;It's in the cheery words you speak, and in the coins you ...
He doesn't care that I'm not rich, Or that I'm poorly dressed, That I'm a toiler in the ditch He ...
They lived together thirty years,I Through storm and sunshine, weal and woe;They shared each other's hopes and fears - She ...
The road to laughter beckons me, The road to all that's best;The home road where I nightly see ...
Did you ever sit down and talk with menIn a serious sort of a way,On their views of life and ...
Under the roof where the laughter rings, That's where I long to be;There are all of the glorious things, Meaning ...
He has not served who gathers gold,Nor has he served, whose life is toldIn selfish battles he has won,Or deeds ...
The world is needing you and me, In places where we ought to be; Somewhere today it's needing you To ...
When we have lived our little lives and wandered all their byways through,When we've seen all that we shall see ...
There are no gods that bring to youthThe rich rewards that stalwarts claim;The god of fortune is in truthA vision ...
Truth went forth on a search one dayI For the source of love that he might sayHe had found its ...
THERE'S the mother at the doorway, and the children at the gate,And the little parlor windows with the curtains white ...
Not for the sake of the gold,Not for the sake of the fame,Not for the prize would I holdAny ambition ...
What sort of a friend are you?Do you stick by a brother's side, As you know you'd want him to ...
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