Care-Free Youth (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
The skies are blue and the sun is out and the grass is green and soft And the ...
The skies are blue and the sun is out and the grass is green and soft And the ...
There never was a family without its homely man,With legs a little longer than the ordinary plan,An' a shock of ...
You think that the failures are many, You think the successes are few,But you judge by the rule of ...
It's September, and the orchards are afire with red and gold, And the nights with dew are heavy, and the ...
The world is filled with bustle and with selfishness and greed,It is filled with restless people that are dreaming of ...
GIVE me a single day, I ask no more From dawn to dusk, ah, that is time enoughTo reach the ...
I'm never alone in the garden, he said. "I'm never alone with the flowers.It seems like I'm meeting the ...
It is not ornamental, the cost is not great,There are other things far more useful, yet truly I state,Though of ...
I might have been rich if I'd wanted the gold instead of the friendships I've made.I might have had ...
If I could have my wish to-night it would not be for wealth or fame,It would not be for some ...
SUNDAY in the country - that's how we spent the day, Drinking in the perfume of the fragrant breath of ...
There are different kinds of heroes, there are some you hear about.They get their pictures printed, and their names the ...
We're hiking along at a two-forty pace We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,With our nerves all on ...
Bit of a priest and a bit of sailor,Bit of a doctor and bit of a tailor,Bit of a lawyer, ...
HE'D made a fortune out of stocks, he couldn't count his worth; He 'd hoarded up a store of gold, ...
Old-fashioned letters! How good they were!And nobody writes them now;Never at all comes in the scrawlOn the written pages which ...
Better than land or gold or tradeAre a high ideal and a purpose true;Better than all of the wealth we've ...
When I am rich, he used to say,"A thousand joys I'll give away;I'll walk among the poor I findAnd unto ...
NOT over there do I awaitReward for patience here below,Not over there at Heaven's gateIs all the joy that I ...
SEPTEMBER with her brushes dipped in dazzling red and goldNow comes to paint the valleys and the hills;And we forget ...
Oh, if only I had known! Said the keeper of the inn."But no hint to me was shown, ...
I do not ask a store of wealth, Nor special gift of power;I hope always for strength and health To ...
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 ...
You shall have satin and silk to wear, When my ship comes in;And jewels to shine in your raven hair, ...
When an old man gets to thinking of the years he's traveled through,He hears again the laughter of the little ...
fight worth while on this good old earthIsn't the fight for a hoard of gold IIt isn't the fight to ...
You can buy, if you've got money, all you need to drink and eat,You can pay for bread and honey, ...
BEHIND full many a gift there lies A splendid tale of sacrifice. On Christmas morn a mother's handAbout a young ...
THEY say somewhere in the distance fair,Is the town of Nothing-to-Do,Where the sun, they say, shines every dayAnd the skies ...
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