Baby’s Got A Tooth (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
The telephone rang in my office to-day, as it often has tinkled before. ...
The telephone rang in my office to-day, as it often has tinkled before. ...
A feller don't start in to think of himself, an' the part that he's playin' down here,When there's nobody ...
YOU'VE heard a good deal of the telephone wires," He said as we sat at our ease,And talked ...
His eye was wild and his face was taut with anger and hate and rage, ...
Old women say that men don't knowThe pain through which all mothers go,And maybe that is true, and yetI vow ...
The sumac's flaming scarlet on the edges o' the lake, An' the pear trees are invitin' everyone t' come an' ...
Time was the cry went round the world: America for freedom speaks, A new flag is to-day ...
Some day, says Ma, "I'm goin' to getA party dress all trimmed with jet,An' hire a seamstress in, an' sheIs ...
We were sittin' there, and smokin' of our pipes, discussin' thingsLike taxes, votes for wimmin, an' the totterin' ...
God has been good to men. He gaveHis Only Son their souls to save,And then he made a second gift,Which ...
We was speakin' of folks, jes' common folks, An' we come to this conclusion, That wherever they be, on land ...
When winter shuts a fellow in and turns the lock upon his door,There's nothing else for him to do but ...
Vacation time! How glad it seemedWhen as a boy I sat and dreamedAbove my school books, of the funThat I ...
He was just a small church parson when the war broke out, and heLooked and dressed and acted like all ...
The handy man about the houseIs old and bent and gray;Each morning in the yard he toils,Where all the children ...
They say my boy is bad, she said to me, A tired old woman, thin and very frail."They caught him ...
Got a sliver in my handAn' it hurt t' beat the band,An' got white around it, too;Then the first thing ...
A feller isn't thinkin' mean, Out fishin';His thoughts are mostly good an' clean, Out fishin'.He doesn't knock his ...
Some day the world will need a man of courage in a time of doubt,And somewhere, as a little boy, ...
I work for someone else, he said;"I have no chance to get ahead.At night I leave the job behind;At morn ...
Swiftly the changes come. Each daySees some lost beauty blown awayAnd some new touch of lovely graceCome into life to ...
We were settin' there an' smokin' of our pipes, discussin' things,Like licker, votes for wimmin, an' the totterin'thrones o' kings,When ...
The doctor leads a busy life, he wages war with death;Long hours he spends to help the one who's fighting ...
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;He is almost what he should be when the ...
I'm sorry for a fellow if he cannot look and seeIn a grate fire's friendly flaming all the joys which ...
When we've honored the heroes returning from France,When we've mourned for the heroes who fell,When we've done all we can ...
I'VE seen the Rockies in the west, I've seen the canyons wild and grim, I've seen the prairies golden dressed, ...
Can't is the worst word that's written or spoken; Doing more harm here than slander and lies; On it is ...
Think happy thoughts!Think sunshine all the day;Refuse to let the trifling worries stay,Crowd them with thoughts of laughter from your ...
Your dream and my dream is not that we shall rest,But that our children after us shall know life at ...
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