Boy O’ Mine (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Boy o' mine, boy o' mine, this is my prayer for you,This is my dream and my thought and my ...
Boy o' mine, boy o' mine, this is my prayer for you,This is my dream and my thought and my ...
Last year he wanted building blocks, And picture books and toys,A saddle horse that gayly rocks, And games ...
The moon swings low in the sky above, And the twinkling stars shine bright,And a mother sings to her baby ...
Old-fashioned flowers! I love them all:The morning-glories on the wall,The pansies in their patch of shade,The violets, stolen from a ...
There isn't any danger in the kindly things you say,There isn't any sorrow in the fine and manly deed,No deep ...
Come you with dangers to fright us? or hazardsto try out our souls?Then may you find us undaunted; determined toget ...
I want my boy to love his home, His Mother, yes, and me:I want him, wheresoe'er he'll roam, With us ...
Home is the place where the laughter should ring, And man should be found at his best.Let the cares of ...
He wiped his shoes before his door,But ere he entered he did more;'Twas not enough to cleanse his feetOf dirt ...
Along the paths o' glory there are faces new to-day,There are youthful hearts and sturdy that have found the westward ...
It's mighty hard for Mother-I am busy through the dayAnd the tasks of every morning keep the gloomy thoughts away,And ...
OUT of the day you have taken what, Crown of laurels and wreath of bay? Smiles or frowns? Did you ...
IT'S ALL in the way that you look at the world,It's all in the way that you do things,With laughter ...
Eagerly he took my dime, Then shuffled on his way,Thick with sin and filth and grime, But I wondered all ...
I follow a famous father,His honor is mine to wear;He gave me a name that was free from shame,A name ...
WISH I was only as bright as my boy,Wish I could think of the things that he springs;His is a ...
These are the memories of tomorrow, Smile of friend we meet today, Sympathy to soothe our sorrow, Roses blooming by ...
I reckon when the world we leaveAnd cease to smile and cease to grieve,When each of us shall quit the ...
When there's good health In the house, there is laughter everywhere,And the skies are bright and sunny and the roads ...
IT isn't the blue in the skies, Nor the song of the whispering trees, The light in a fair maiden's ...
Trouble is an exerciserSent us by a Wisdom wiserThan the mind of man possesses.Doubts and dangers and distressesCome not purposely ...
It's good to have the trees again, the singing of the breeze again,It's good to see the lilacs bloom as ...
Whenever I walk through God's Acres of DeadI wonder how often the mute voices said:"I will do a kind deed ...
THROUGH the smoke clouds that I blowI can see the Long AgoAnd the merry lanes of boyhoodThat I gayly used ...
I mustn't forget that I'm gettin' old,That's the worst thing ever a man can do.I must keep in mind without ...
Success is being friendly when another needs a friend;It's in the cheery words you speak, and in the coins you ...
The sweetest soul I ever knewI Had suffered untold sorrow,Had wept full many a long night throughAnd feared the dark ...
When your boy wants to do what he shouldn't-Some foolish or dangerous thing. Or something you wish that he wouldn't,A ...
A little bit of hatred can spoil a score of yearsAnd blur the eyes that ought to smile with many ...
To live as gently as I can;To be, no matter where, a man;To take what comes of good or illAnd ...
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