When Father Played Baseball (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
The smell of arnica is strong, And mother's time is spentIn rubbing father's arms and back With burning ...
The smell of arnica is strong, And mother's time is spentIn rubbing father's arms and back With burning ...
Old women say that men don't knowThe pain through which all mothers go,And maybe that is true, and yetI vow ...
I do not say new friends are not considerate and true, Or that their smiles ain't genuine, but still I'm ...
I'VE had a heap of fun and I've had a heap of sorrow, I've had a heap of pleasure and ...
There is too much of sighing, and weaving Of pitiful tales of despair.There is too much of wailing and ...
There's no lock upon your door, And the polish that you wore In the years ago when you were bright ...
Because I am his father, theyExpect me to put grief away;Because I am a man, and roughAnd sometimes short of ...
There's a lot of joy in the smiling world, there's plenty of morning sun, And laughter and songs and ...
He tried to travel No Man's Land, that's guarded well with guns, He tried to race the road of ...
She is fair to see and sweet,Dainty from her head to feet,Modest, as her blushing shows,Happy, as her smiles disclose,And ...
When Mrs. Malone got a letter from PatShe started to read it aloud in her flat."Dear Mary," it started, "I ...
It's coming time for planting in that little patch of ground,Where the lad and I made merry as he followed ...
Last night I got to thinkin' of the pleasant long ago,When I still had on knee breeches, an' I wore ...
The doctor leads a busy life, he wages war with death;Long hours he spends to help the one who's fighting ...
'Tis a little old house with a squeak in the stairs,And a porch that seems made for just two easy ...
Your dream and my dream is not that we shall rest,But that our children after us shall know life at ...
Most every night when they're in bed,And both their little prayers have said,They shout for me to come upstairsAnd tell ...
How fine it is at night to say:"I have not wronged a soul to-day.I have not by a word or ...
Most folks, as I've noticed, in pleasure an' strife,Are always expecting too much out of life.They wail an' they fretJust ...
Sue's got a baby now, an' sheIs like her mother used to be;Her face seems prettier, an' her waysMore settled-like. ...
Let others sing their songs of war And chant their hymns of splendid death, Let others praise the soldiers' ways ...
The dreams of youth are fairest,The dreams of youth are rarest;The dreams of youth are brighterThan the dreams we'll know ...
Adown the lanes of memory bloom all the flowers of yesteryear,And looking back we smile to see life's bright red ...
I do not quarrel with the gas,Our modern range is fine,The ancient stove was doomed to passFrom Time's grim firing ...
I'd like to steal a day and beAll alone with little me,Little me that used to runEverywhere in search of ...
Fish can be bought in the market place,So it isn't the fish I'm after.I want to get free from the ...
When the burden grows heavy, and rough is the way, When you falter and slip, and it isn't your day, ...
The moon swings low in the sky above, And the twinkling stars shine bright,And a mother sings to her baby ...
They give their all, this Christmastide, that peace on earth shall reign;Upon the snows of Flanders now, brave blood has ...
I might wish the world were better,I might sit around and sighFor a water that is wetterAnd a bluer sort ...
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