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 ...
"TELL us a story," comes the cry From little lips when nights are ...
Old women say that men don't knowThe pain through which all mothers go,And maybe that is true, and yetI vow ...
Time was I used to worry and I'd sit around an' sigh,And think with every ache I got that I ...
Time was the cry went round the world: America for freedom speaks, A new flag is to-day ...
We've raised a flagpole on the farm And flung Old Glory to the sky,And it's another touch of charm ...
WHEN I was but a little tad I used to hear my dear old dad Tell friends about the good ...
I do not say new friends are not considerate and true, Or that their smiles ain't genuine, but still I'm ...
IN parting from a dear old friend for months, perhaps, or years, There's bound to be some bitter sobs, an' ...
Some day, says Ma, "I'm goin' to getA party dress all trimmed with jet,An' hire a seamstress in, an' sheIs ...
He spent what he made, or he gave it away,Tried to save money, and would for a day,Started a bank-account ...
I remember the excitement and the terrible alarmThat worried everybody when William broke his arm;An' how frantic Pa and Ma ...
FULL many a flag the breeze has kissed;Through ages long the morning sun Has risen over the early mistThe flags ...
When you were just our little boy, on many a night we crept Unto your cot and watched o'er ...
Some have the gift of song and some possess the gift of silver speech,Some have the gift of leadership and ...
When I was young and frivolous and never stopped to think, When I was always doing wrong, or just upon ...
There's no lock upon your door, And the polish that you wore In the years ago when you were bright ...
My Pa he eats his breakfast in a funny sort of way: We hardly ever see him at ...
We was speakin' of folks, jes' common folks, An' we come to this conclusion, That wherever they be, on land ...
Always whenever I want to playI've got to practice an hour a day,Get through breakfast an' make my bed,And Mother ...
I work for someone else, he said;"I have no chance to get ahead.At night I leave the job behind;At morn ...
Vacation time! How glad it seemedWhen as a boy I sat and dreamedAbove my school books, of the funThat I ...
Last night I caught him on his knees and looking underneath the bed,And oh, the guilty look he wore, and ...
It may be I'm old-fashioned, but the times I like the bestAre not the splendid parties with the women gaily ...
When Pa comes home, I'm at the door,An' then he grabs me off the floorAn' throws me up an' catches ...
They put him in jail for the thing he'd done, For that was the law they'd made; They turned the ...
EVERY gentle breeze that's blowing is a tempter very knowing, For it penetrates my armor in its weakest, thinnest spot; ...
WHEN the dressmaker comes I am told to clear out,For they don't want me anywhere hanging about;At seven in the ...
Time was when spring returned we wentTo find another home to rent;We wanted fresher, cleaner walls,And bigger rooms and wider ...
Out in the woods with a dog an' gunIs my idea of a real day's fun.'Tain't the birds that I'm ...
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