Runner McGee: (Who Had “Return if Possible” Orders) (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
YOU'VE heard a good deal of the telephone wires," He said as we sat at our ease,And talked ...
YOU'VE heard a good deal of the telephone wires," He said as we sat at our ease,And talked ...
"TELL us a story," comes the cry From little lips when nights are ...
'TIS friendship's test to guard the name Of him you love from all attack, As you are to his face, ...
Little woman, hourly sitting, Something for a soldier knitting, What in fancy can you see? Many pictures ...
_The proof of a man is the danger test_, _That shows him up at his worst or best_. ...
LAST night we had a hurry call to go to daughter May, Her husband said that Ma and me were ...
Old women say that men don't knowThe pain through which all mothers go,And maybe that is true, and yetI vow ...
The sumac's flaming scarlet on the edges o' the lake, An' the pear trees are invitin' everyone t' come an' ...
IN parting from a dear old friend for months, perhaps, or years, There's bound to be some bitter sobs, an' ...
Some are eager to be famous, some are striving to be great, Some are toiling to be leaders of ...
Listen to the laughter of the brook that's racin' by! Listen to the chatter of the black-birds on ...
This I heard the Old Flag say As I passed it yesterday: "Months ago your friendly hands ...
We were speakin' of excitement, an' the hair upliftin' thrills That sorter dot life's landscape, like the bill board ads. ...
When you were just our little boy, on many a night we crept Unto your cot and watched o'er ...
His comrades have enlisted, but his mother bids him stay, His soul is sick with coward shame, his head ...
Whatever the task and whatever the risk, wherever the flag's in air,The funny man with his sunny ways is ...
The little woman, to her I bow And doff my hat as I pass her by;I reverence the furrows that ...
We've been out to Pelletier'sBrushing off the stain of years,Quitting all the moods of menAnd been boys and girls again.We ...
YOU never hear a woman boastOf her endurance, yet I vowThe tiniest mite o' a woman hasMore courage than a ...
He tried to travel No Man's Land, that's guarded well with guns, He tried to race the road of ...
He was just a small church parson when the war broke out, and heLooked and dressed and acted like all ...
They say my boy is bad, she said to me, A tired old woman, thin and very frail."They caught him ...
When Pa came home last night he had a package in his hand,Now Ma," said he, "I've something here which ...
I KNEW it was comin', I'd watched fer a year Without sayin' a word to a soul excep' Ma Of ...
She mothered five!Night after night she watched a little bed,Night after night she cooled a fevered head,Day after day she ...
Laughter sort o' settles breakfast better than digestive pills;Found it, somehow in my travels, cure for every sort of ills;When ...
She mothered five! Night after night she watched a little bed,Night after night she cooled a fevered head, Day after ...
Some day the world will need a man of courage in a time of doubt,And somewhere, as a little boy, ...
I work for someone else, he said;"I have no chance to get ahead.At night I leave the job behind;At morn ...
They put him in jail for the thing he'd done, For that was the law they'd made; They turned the ...
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