If I Were Santa Claus (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
IF only I were Santa Claus I 'd travel east and west To every hovel where there lies a little ...
IF only I were Santa Claus I 'd travel east and west To every hovel where there lies a little ...
Most every night when they're in bed,And both their little prayers have said,They shout for me to come upstairsAnd tell ...
I HOLD the finest picture-booksAre woods an' fields an' runnin' brooks;An' when the month o' May has doneHer paintin', an' ...
The things that make a soldier great and send him out to die,To face the flaming cannon's mouth, nor ever ...
He wears a long and solemn faceAnd drives the children from his place;He doesn't like to hear them shoutOr race ...
SEPTEMBER with her brushes dipped in dazzling red and goldNow comes to paint the valleys and the hills;And we forget ...
My religion's lovin' God, who made us, one and all,Who marks, no matter where it be, the humble sparrow's fall;An' ...
We're gittin' so we need againTo see the sproutin' seed again.We've been shut up all winter longWithin our narrow rooms;We're ...
The dreams of youth are fairest,The dreams of youth are rarest;The dreams of youth are brighterThan the dreams we'll know ...
I WONDER what the trees will say,The trees that used to share his play,An' knew him as the little ladWho ...
He will not come to him this year with all his old-time joy, An imitation Santa Claus must serve ...
God made the little boys for fun, for rough and tumble times of play;He made their little legs to run ...
UNDER a tree where the breezes blow, There is the spot that it's good to go With the children bronzed ...
Fish can be bought in the market place,So it isn't the fish I'm after.I want to get free from the ...
You have given me riches and ease,You have given me joys through the years,I have sat in the shade of ...
We got to talking art one day, discussing in a general wayHow some can match with brush and paint the ...
Foxes can talk if you know how to listen, My Paw said so. Owls have big eyes that sparkle an' ...
The moon swings low in the sky above, And the twinkling stars shine bright,And a mother sings to her baby ...
LAST night I single handed fought a gang of murderers that came To get my money or my life, and ...
I HEARD an old man say today:"A young man gives me orders now,"A beardless youth gets better payAnd tells me ...
I know a wonderful land, I said,Where the skies are always blue,Where on chocolate drops are the children fed,And coconut ...
Little girls are mighty nice, Take 'em any way they come;They are always worth their price; Life without 'em would ...
When will the laughter ring again in the way that it used to do?Not till the soldiers come home again, ...
I LIKE the dream days best of all,The hollyhocks against the wall;The rambler roses blushing red,The blue skies bending overhead,With ...
Pinker than the roses that enrich a summer's day, Splashing in the bath tub or just kicking them in play, ...
Jes' the sort o' weather and jes' the sort of skyWhich seem to suit my fancy, with the white clouds ...
Folks are queer as they can be,Always sayin' "don't" to me;Don't do this an' don't do that.Don't annoy or tease ...
IT isn't the blue in the skies, Nor the song of the whispering trees, The light in a fair maiden's ...
It's good to have the trees again, the singing of the breeze again,It's good to see the lilacs bloom as ...
Show the flag and let it waveAs a symbol of the braveLet it float upon the breezeAs a sign for ...
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