July The Fourth, 1917 (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
Time was the cry went round the world: America for freedom speaks, A new flag is to-day ...
Time was the cry went round the world: America for freedom speaks, A new flag is to-day ...
I'VE had a heap of fun and I've had a heap of sorrow, I've had a heap of pleasure and ...
He spent what he made, or he gave it away,Tried to save money, and would for a day,Started a bank-account ...
The little church of Long Ago, where as a boy I satWith mother in the family pew and fumbled with ...
The stick-together families are happier by farThan the brothers and the sisters who take separate highways are.The gladdest people living ...
Forgotten petty difference now, The larger purpose glows, The storm is here, a common fear ...
I look into the faces of the people passing by, The glad ones and the sad ones, and the lined ...
Poets have sung of the old-fashioned glories The old-fashioned pictures that hung on the wall,The old-fashioned people, the old-fashioned stories, ...
Lord, we've had our little wrangles, an' we've had our little bouts;There's many a time, I reckon, that we have ...
I WAS somewhere off in Europe spending money like a king, Owned a yacht like J. P. Morgan's, when the ...
If nobody smiled and nobody cheered and nobody helped us along,If each every minute looked after himself and good things ...
Seemed like I couldn't stand it any more, The factory whistles blowin' day by day,An' men an' children hurryin' by ...
GLAD to be back home again,Where abide the friendly men;Glad to see the same old scenesAnd the little house that ...
They ain't much, seen from day to day--The big elm tree across the way,The church spire, an' the meetin' placeLit ...
No children in the house to play—It must be hard to live that way!I wonder what the people doWhen night ...
We little thought how much they meant--the bleeding hearts of France, And British mothers wearing black to mark some ...
He was down and out, and his pluck was gone,And he said to me in a gloomy way:"I've wasted my ...
(The same being Maclyn Arbuckle.) HE WAS bo'n way down in Texas, where the sun is allus shinin'. An' a ...
When an old man gets to thinking of the years he's traveled through,He hears again the laughter of the little ...
People liked him, not becauseHe was rich or known to fame;He had never won applauseAs a star in any game.His ...
THEY say somewhere in the distance fair,Is the town of Nothing-to-Do,Where the sun, they say, shines every dayAnd the skies ...
You can rig up a house with all manner of things,The prayer rugs of sultans and princes and kings;You can ...
Come you with dangers to fright us? or hazardsto try out our souls?Then may you find us undaunted; determined toget ...
rose unto the bights of fameAnd with the great men stood, He heard the people cheer his name And speak ...
THE little old-fashioned church, with the pews that were straight-backed and plain,Where the sunbeams to worship came in through the ...
We are done with little thinking and we're done with little deeds,We are done with petty conduct and we're done ...
It makes me smile to hear 'em tell each other nowadaysThe burdens they are bearing, with a child or two ...
There in the flame of the open grate,All that is good in the past I see:Red-lipped youth on the swinging ...
Pledged to the bravest and the best,We stand, who cannot share the fray,Staunch for the danger and the test.For them ...
Here she walked and romped about, And here beneath this apple treeWhere all the grass is trampled out ...
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