Pa Discusses Economy (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
This year," said Pa, on New Year's night, "we'll start upon a different plan, I'm sick and tired of ending ...
This year," said Pa, on New Year's night, "we'll start upon a different plan, I'm sick and tired of ending ...
HE'D made a fortune out of stocks, he couldn't count his worth; He 'd hoarded up a store of gold, ...
A table cloth that's slightly soiled Where greasy little hands have toiled; The napkins kept in silver rings, And only ...
As a golfer I'm not one who cops the money,I shall always be a member of the dubs;There are times ...
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 ...
Oh, if only I had known! Said the keeper of the inn."But no hint to me was shown, ...
I like to get to thinking of the old days that are gone,When there were joys that never more the ...
WHAT is food for, anyway?Just to keep us through the dayWarm and strong and satisfyHunger, whether bread or pie,Terrapin or ...
I do not ask a store of wealth, Nor special gift of power;I hope always for strength and health To ...
You are the fellow that has to decideWhether you'll do it or toss it aside.You are the fellow who makes ...
Time was I thought of growing up, But that was ere the babies came;I'd dream and plan to be ...
This is the song of the many Who seldom are mentioned in praise, The glorious millions of toilers Who splendidly ...
DOWN the lanes of boyhood, let me go once more, Let me tread the paths of youth that I have ...
How's the little chap to knowJust the proper roads to goIf you never travel with himWhile he's little, hand in ...
DID you ever meet a brother as you hurried on your way And invite him up to dinner, and his ...
OLD-FASHIONED folks! God bless 'em all! The fathers an' the mothers, The aunts an' uncles, fat an' tall, The sisters ...
When the hair about the temples starts to show the signs of gray,And a fellow realizes that he's wandering far ...
I've trudged life's highway up and down; I've watched the lines of men march by;I've seen them in the busy ...
When an old man gets to thinking of the years he's traveled through,He hears again the laughter of the little ...
I WOULD like to wed your daughter," said the multi-millionaire, "I will try to make her happy; if I don't ...
A FRIEND of mine said yesterday: "There goes a man across the way Who paid ten thousand dollars for a ...
IT "S human for a womanTo enjoy a little cry;Though a man will grin and bear 'emAnd pass little troubles ...
You can buy, if you've got money, all you need to drink and eat,You can pay for bread and honey, ...
Men will grow weary, said the Lord,"Of working for their bed and board.They'll weary of the money chaseAnd want to ...
When day is done and the night slips down,And I've turned my back on the busy town,And come once more ...
Don't mind being broke at all,When I can say that what I hadWas spent for toys for kiddies smallAnd that ...
THESE joys are free to all who liveThe rich and poor, the great and low: The charms which kindness has ...
THEY say somewhere in the distance fair,Is the town of Nothing-to-Do,Where the sun, they say, shines every dayAnd the skies ...
In the corner she's left the mechanical toy, On the chair is her Teddy Bear fine;The things that I ...
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