Copy Paper (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
I START the day with paper white, And put it in my old machine, And wonder whether, as I write ...
I START the day with paper white, And put it in my old machine, And wonder whether, as I write ...
Better than land or gold or tradeAre a high ideal and a purpose true;Better than all of the wealth we've ...
No children in the house to play—It must be hard to live that way!I wonder what the people doWhen night ...
SEPTEMBER with her brushes dipped in dazzling red and goldNow comes to paint the valleys and the hills;And we forget ...
The country needs a man like you,It has a task for you to do.It has a job for you to ...
We've had a letter from the boy,And oh, the gladness and the joyIt brought to us! We read it o'erI'd ...
The lady what comes up to our house t' wash Is awfully poor, an' she's got Three babies t' care ...
You are the fellow that has to decideWhether you'll do it or toss it aside.You are the fellow who makes ...
How do you tackle your work each day? Are you scared of the job you find? Do you grapple the ...
For this and that and various things It seems that men must get together,To purchase cups or diamond rings Or ...
Nobody hates me more than I;No enemy have I to-dayThat I so bravely must defy;There are no foes along my ...
Courage isn't a brilliant dash,A daring deed in a moment's flash;It isn't an instantaneous thingBorn of despair with a sudden ...
A FRIEND of mine said yesterday: "There goes a man across the way Who paid ten thousand dollars for a ...
Promotion comes to him who sticksUnto his work and never kicks,Who watches neither clock nor sunTo tell him when his ...
What do I want my boy to be?Oft is the question asked of me,And oft I ask it of myself--What ...
I reckon the finest sight of all That a man can see in this world of oursAin't the works ...
I don't see why Pa likes him so, And seems so glad to have him come;He jabs my ribs and ...
Boy o' mine, boy o' mine, this is my prayer for you,This is my dream and my thought and my ...
We've never seen the Father here, but we have known the Son,The finest type of manhood since the world was ...
There are a thousand ways to cheat and a thousand ways to sin;There are ways uncounted to lose the game, ...
One day, in ages dark and dim,A toiler, weary, worn and faint,Who found his task too much for him,Gave voice ...
Come you with dangers to fright us? or hazardsto try out our souls?Then may you find us undaunted; determined toget ...
Is it all in the envelope holding your pay?Is that all you're working for day after day?Are you getting no ...
Apples on the table an' the grate-fire blazin' high,Oh, I'm sure the whole world hasn't any happier man than I;The ...
Home is the place where the laughter should ring, And man should be found at his best.Let the cares of ...
The finest tribute we can payUnto our hero dead to-day,Is not a rose wreath, white and red,In memory of the ...
It's a bigger thing you're doing than the most of us have done;We have lived the days of pleasure; now ...
I'm standing at my lathe all dayAnd this is what I hear it say:"The best of you, the best of ...
We are done with little thinking and we're done with little deeds,We are done with petty conduct and we're done ...
Life is a struggle for peace, A longing for rest, A hope for the battles to cease, ...
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