The Sorry Hostess (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
She said she was sorry the weather was badThe night that she asked us to dine;And she really appeared inexpressibly ...
She said she was sorry the weather was badThe night that she asked us to dine;And she really appeared inexpressibly ...
I DO not care for garments fine, I do not care for medals bright; I have no wish to quench ...
I wonder if he'll stop to think,When the long years have traveled by,Who heard his plea: "I want a drink!"Who ...
First thing in the morning, last I hear at night,Get it when I come from school: "My, you look a ...
Little lady at the altar,Vowing by God's book and psalterTo be faithful, fond and trueUnto him who stands by you,Think ...
Adown the lanes of memory bloom all the flowers of yesteryear,And looking back we smile to see life's bright red ...
For this and that and various things It seems that men must get together,To purchase cups or diamond rings Or ...
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 ...
WHY do I grind from morn till night,And sick or well sit down to write?Why do I line my brow ...
'Twas hard to think that he must go,We knew that we should miss him so,We thought that he must always ...
My Paw says that it used to be,Whenever the minister came for tea,'At they sat up straight in their chairs ...
You have given me riches and ease,You have given me joys through the years,I have sat in the shade of ...
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 ...
Wait till your Pa comes home! Oh, dear!What a dreadful threat for a boy to hear.Yet never a boy of ...
There is no star within the flagThat's brighter than its brothers, And when of Michigan I brag,I'm boasting of the ...
I would rather be the daddy Of a romping, roguish crew,Of a bright-eyed chubby laddie And a little ...
Curling smoke from a chimney low,And only a few more steps to go,Faces pressed at a window paneWatching for someone ...
The walls have seemed to say to me Where have the sticky fingers gone That always found their way to ...
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 ...
He has heard his country calling, and has fallen into line, And he's doing something bigger than his ...
There are noises that freeze up the blood, There's the sound of the burglar at night As he's picking the ...
There isn't any danger in the kindly things you say,There isn't any sorrow in the fine and manly deed,No deep ...
THEY 'RE coming home Thanksgiving Day,They 're coming back once more,And mother's smiles begin to playThe way they did beforeThe ...
rose unto the bights of fameAnd with the great men stood, He heard the people cheer his name And speak ...
When he was only nine months old, And plump and round and pink of cheek, A joy to tickle and ...
Men talk too much of gold and fame,And not enough about a name;And yet a good name's better farThan all ...
The mother on the sidewalk as the troops are marching byIs the mother of Old Glory that is waving in ...
BACK UP Old Age and Wrinkled Face,Come, Selfish Grown-Up, quit the place,You Pessimist, depart!Now, Gloomy Gus and Doleful Frown,There is ...
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