When Father Played Baseball (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
The smell of arnica is strong, And mother's time is spentIn rubbing father's arms and back With burning ...
The smell of arnica is strong, And mother's time is spentIn rubbing father's arms and back With burning ...
LAST night we had a hurry call to go to daughter May, Her husband said that Ma and me were ...
Old women say that men don't knowThe pain through which all mothers go,And maybe that is true, and yetI vow ...
I NEVER knew him, for he never grewUp as so many strong little ones do;Just a year on the earth ...
I'VE had a heap of fun and I've had a heap of sorrow, I've had a heap of pleasure and ...
My grandpa is the finest manExcep' my pa. My grandpa canMake kites an' carts an' lots of thingsYou pull along ...
WHEN I was but a little tad I used to hear my dear old dad Tell friends about the good ...
Mine is a song of hope For the days that lie before; For the grander ...
It's tough when you are homesick in a strange and distant place; It's anguish when you're hungry for ...
You think that the failures are many, You think the successes are few,But you judge by the rule of ...
He writes to us most every day, and how his letters thrill us! I can't describe the joys with ...
When I was young and frivolous and never stopped to think, When I was always doing wrong, or just upon ...
Because I am his father, theyExpect me to put grief away;Because I am a man, and roughAnd sometimes short of ...
They put him in jail for the thing he'd done, For that was the law they'd made; They turned the ...
The good old-fashioned mothers and the good old-fashioned dads,With their good old-fashioned lassies and their good old-fashioned lads,Still walk the ...
My father is a peaceful man;He tries in every way he canTo live a life of gentlenessAnd patience all the ...
I don't know what they'll put him at, or what his post may be; I cannot ...
It is not ornamental, the cost is not great,There are other things far more useful, yet truly I state,Though of ...
Some day the world will need a man of courage in a time of doubt,And somewhere, as a little boy, ...
IT doesn't seem a year ago that I was tumbling out of bed, The icy steps that lead below at ...
MY father is a peaceful man, He tries in every way he can To live a life of gentleness And ...
Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is ...
He little knew the sorrow that was in his vacant chair;He never guessed they'd miss him, or he'd surely have ...
Dear Father, he wrote me from Somewhere in France, Where he's waiting with Pershing to lead the advance, ...
I can't help thinkin' o' the lad! Here's summer bringin' trees to fruit,An' every bush with roses clad, An' nature ...
Swiftly the changes come. Each daySees some lost beauty blown awayAnd some new touch of lovely graceCome into life to ...
The doctor leads a busy life, he wages war with death;Long hours he spends to help the one who's fighting ...
There's a heap o' satisfaction in a chunk o' pumpkin pie,An' I'm always glad I'm livin' when the cake is ...
'Tis a little old house with a squeak in the stairs,And a porch that seems made for just two easy ...
He's doing double duty now;Time's silver gleams upon his brow,And there are lines upon his faceWhich only passing years can ...
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