The Change-Worker (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
A feller don't start in to think of himself, an' the part that he's playin' down here,When there's nobody ...
A feller don't start in to think of himself, an' the part that he's playin' down here,When there's nobody ...
I'VE had a heap of fun and I've had a heap of sorrow, I've had a heap of pleasure and ...
Ma has a dandy little book that's full of narrow slips, An' when she wants to pay a bill ...
To happiness I raise my glass, The goal of every human, The hope of every clan and class ...
I NEVER knew him, for he never grewUp as so many strong little ones do;Just a year on the earth ...
IN parting from a dear old friend for months, perhaps, or years, There's bound to be some bitter sobs, an' ...
Mine is a song of hope For the days that lie before; For the grander ...
There never was a family without its homely man,With legs a little longer than the ordinary plan,An' a shock of ...
It's tough when you are homesick in a strange and distant place; It's anguish when you're hungry for ...
His comrades have enlisted, but his mother bids him stay, His soul is sick with coward shame, his head ...
The little woman, to her I bow And doff my hat as I pass her by;I reverence the furrows that ...
We was speakin' of folks, jes' common folks, An' we come to this conclusion, That wherever they be, on land ...
Always whenever I want to playI've got to practice an hour a day,Get through breakfast an' make my bed,And Mother ...
They put him in jail for the thing he'd done, For that was the law they'd made; They turned the ...
The good old-fashioned mothers and the good old-fashioned dads,With their good old-fashioned lassies and their good old-fashioned lads,Still walk the ...
I can pass up the lure of a jewel to wear With never the trace of a sigh,The things ...
I'm never alone in the garden, he said. "I'm never alone with the flowers.It seems like I'm meeting the ...
If he should meet a mother there Along some winding Flanders road, No extra touch of grief ...
It is not ornamental, the cost is not great,There are other things far more useful, yet truly I state,Though of ...
It's coming time for planting in that little patch of ground,Where the lad and I made merry as he followed ...
We understand a lot of things we never did before,And it seems that to each other Ma and I are ...
When mother baked an angel cake we kids would gather roundAn' watch her gentle hands at work, an' never make ...
Oh, little girl with eyes of brownAnd smiles that fairly light the town,I wonder if you really knowJust why it ...
The world is full of roses, blooming red for me I and you,They smile a morning welcome and are wet ...
There's a heap o' satisfaction in a chunk o' pumpkin pie,An' I'm always glad I'm livin' when the cake is ...
She never closed her eyes in sleep till we were all in bed;On party nights till we came home she ...
When God first viewed the rose He'd made He smiled, and thought it passing fair; Upon the bloom His ...
Lord, we've had our little wrangles, an' we've had our little bouts;There's many a time, I reckon, that we have ...
I WAS somewhere off in Europe spending money like a king, Owned a yacht like J. P. Morgan's, when the ...
He little knew the sorrow that was in his vacant chair;He never guessed they'd miss him, or he'd surely have ...
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