The Honor Roll (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
The boys upon the honor roll, God bless them all, I pray! God watch them when they sleep at ...
The boys upon the honor roll, God bless them all, I pray! God watch them when they sleep at ...
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 ...
He's doing double duty now;Time's silver gleams upon his brow,And there are lines upon his faceWhich only passing years can ...
When something or other has made him feel glad,His rattle he throws on the floor; The times he is good ...
THE dead return. I know they do;The glad smile may have passed from view,The ringing voice that cheered us soIn ...
IF only I were Santa Claus I 'd travel east and west To every hovel where there lies a little ...
When I was but a little lad of six and seven and eight,One joy I knew that has been lost ...
HUSH, little ones don't make a noisePick up your dolls and pick up your toys,Pick up your Teddy Bear, Johnny, ...
A table cloth that's slightly soiled Where greasy little hands have toiled; The napkins kept in silver rings, And only ...
I'M not kicking on expenses, now the sewing time commences, I will buy chiffon and laces till they say they've ...
I'm sorry for a feller if he hasn't any aunt,To let him eat and do the things his mother says ...
I wish I was a poet like the men that write in booksThe poems that we have to learn on ...
When mother's sewing buttons onTheir little garments, one by one,I settle down contented thereAnd watch her in her rocking chair.She's ...
SEPTEMBER with her brushes dipped in dazzling red and goldNow comes to paint the valleys and the hills;And we forget ...
We've had a letter from the boy,And oh, the gladness and the joyIt brought to us! We read it o'erI'd ...
Sue's got a baby now, an' sheIs like her mother used to be;Her face seems prettier, an' her waysMore settled-like. ...
When I was a boy, and it chanced to rain, Mother would always watch for me;She used to stand ...
Mothers and wives, 'tis the call to armsThat the bugler yonder prepares to sound;We stand on the brink of war's ...
I wonder if he'll stop to think,When the long years have traveled by,Who heard his plea: "I want a drink!"Who ...
SAY, young fellow, just a minute,They 're your first long trousers, eh?And your little gray knee breechesAre forever put away.And ...
They say we must not hate, nor fight in hate.I've thought it over many a solemn hour,And cannot mildly view ...
My big brother will git you fer that,He'll shine up your eye and he'll step on your hat:You'd better watch ...
OLD-FASHIONED folks! God bless 'em all! The fathers an' the mothers, The aunts an' uncles, fat an' tall, The sisters ...
I DON'T get much attention now, Although I'm not complaining; I'm forced to get on anyhow, Another king is reigning. ...
In the Christmas times of the long ago,There was one event we used to know That was better than any ...
'Twas hard to think that he must go,We knew that we should miss him so,We thought that he must always ...
BEHIND full many a gift there lies A splendid tale of sacrifice. On Christmas morn a mother's handAbout a young ...
Sometimes at the table, whenHe gets misbehavin', thenMother calls across to me:"Look at him, now! Don't you seeWhat he's doin', ...
You can rig up a house with all manner of things,The prayer rugs of sultans and princes and kings;You can ...
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