The Change-Worker (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
A feller don't start in to think of himself, an' the part that he's playin' down here,When there's nobody ...
A feller don't start in to think of himself, an' the part that he's playin' down here,When there's nobody ...
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 roads of happiness are not The selfish roads of pleasure seeking, Where cheeks ...
Some folks there be who seem to need excitement fast and furious,An' reckon all the joys that have no thrill ...
Some have the gift of song and some possess the gift of silver speech,Some have the gift of leadership and ...
There's a lot of joy in the smiling world, there's plenty of morning sun, And laughter and songs and ...
We was speakin' of folks, jes' common folks, An' we come to this conclusion, That wherever they be, on land ...
The stick-together families are happier by farThan the brothers and the sisters who take separate highways are.The gladdest people living ...
The good old-fashioned mothers and the good old-fashioned dads,With their good old-fashioned lassies and their good old-fashioned lads,Still walk the ...
I can pass up the lure of a jewel to wear With never the trace of a sigh,The things ...
Oh, my shoulders grow aweary of the burdens I am bearin',An' I grumble when I'm footsore at the rough road ...
If I could have my wish to-night it would not be for wealth or fame,It would not be for some ...
We understand a lot of things we never did before,And it seems that to each other Ma and I are ...
They tie you down, a woman said,Whose cheeks should have been flaming redWith shame to speak of children so."When babies ...
You can boast your round of pleasures, praise the sound of popping corks,Where the orchestra is playing to the rattle ...
He was playing in the garden when we called him in for tea,But he didn't seem to hear us, so ...
GLAD to be back home again,Where abide the friendly men;Glad to see the same old scenesAnd the little house that ...
He's doing double duty now;Time's silver gleams upon his brow,And there are lines upon his faceWhich only passing years can ...
BEFORE you came, my little lad, I used to think that I was good, Some vicious habits, too, I had, ...
Your dream and my dream is not that we shall rest,But that our children after us shall know life at ...
Bit of a priest and a bit of sailor,Bit of a doctor and bit of a tailor,Bit of a lawyer, ...
Do your bit! How cheap and trite Seems that phrase in such a fight! "Do your bit!" That ...
The old days, the old days, how oft the poets sing,The days of hope at dewy morn, the days of ...
Most folks, as I've noticed, in pleasure an' strife,Are always expecting too much out of life.They wail an' they fretJust ...
So easy to say what another should do,So easy to settle his cares,So easy to tell him what roads to ...
When the hair about the temples starts to show the signs of gray,And a fellow realizes that he's wandering far ...
Wherever you may chance to be - wherever you may roam,Far away in foreign lands; or just at home sweet ...
You may talk of stylish raiment, You may boast your broadcloth fine,And the price you gave in payment ...
Don't mind being broke at all,When I can say that what I hadWas spent for toys for kiddies smallAnd that ...
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