We Who Stay At Home (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
When you were just our little boy, on many a night we crept Unto your cot and watched o'er ...
When you were just our little boy, on many a night we crept Unto your cot and watched o'er ...
Some have the gift of song and some possess the gift of silver speech,Some have the gift of leadership and ...
His comrades have enlisted, but his mother bids him stay, His soul is sick with coward shame, his head ...
God has been good to men. He gaveHis Only Son their souls to save,And then he made a second gift,Which ...
Whatever the task and whatever the risk, wherever the flag's in air,The funny man with his sunny ways is ...
There's no lock upon your door, And the polish that you wore In the years ago when you were bright ...
We all are warriors with sin. Crusading knights,we come to earthWith spotless plumes and shining shields to joustwith foes and ...
Because I am his father, theyExpect me to put grief away;Because I am a man, and roughAnd sometimes short of ...
Jim's made good in the world out there, an' Kate has a man that's true,No better, of course, than she ...
YOU never hear a woman boastOf her endurance, yet I vowThe tiniest mite o' a woman hasMore courage than a ...
PROUD is the state of its millions of men, And proud is the state of its name; In its borders ...
To us the Flag has little meant. Each glorious stripe of red Was woven there to represent ...
We've been out to Pelletier'sBrushing off the stain of years,Quitting all the moods of menAnd been boys and girls again.We ...
Men are of two kinds, and he Was of the kind I'd like to be. Some preach their virtues, and ...
I don't know what it's all about, but Ma says that she wants to knowIf spirits in the other world ...
GARDENING is hardeningIn every way you view it;It makes a fellow hustle,And it strengthens every muscle;It knots up many a ...
I look into the faces of the people passing by, The glad ones and the sad ones, and the lined ...
At Sugar Camp the cook is kind And laughs the laugh we knew as boys;And there we slip away and ...
Laughter sort o' settles breakfast better than digestive pills;Found it, somehow in my travels, cure for every sort of ills;When ...
Vacation time! How glad it seemedWhen as a boy I sat and dreamedAbove my school books, of the funThat I ...
I'd like to be a boy again, a care-free prince of joy again, I'd like to tread the hills and ...
THIS morning came a man to me, his smile was wonderful to see, He shook my hand and doffed his ...
My father is a peaceful man;He tries in every way he canTo live a life of gentlenessAnd patience all the ...
WHEN the dressmaker comes I am told to clear out,For they don't want me anywhere hanging about;At seven in the ...
A feller isn't thinkin' mean, Out fishin';His thoughts are mostly good an' clean, Out fishin'.He doesn't knock his ...
The world is filled with bustle and with selfishness and greed,It is filled with restless people that are dreaming of ...
It is not ornamental, the cost is not great,There are other things far more useful, yet truly I state,Though of ...
He was just a small church parson when the war broke out, and heLooked and dressed and acted like all ...
Some day the world will need a man of courage in a time of doubt,And somewhere, as a little boy, ...
The handy man about the houseIs old and bent and gray;Each morning in the yard he toils,Where all the children ...
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