Section: «Poems»

Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings: artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.); a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").

The New Year

Come you with dangers to fright us? or hazardsto try out our souls?Then may you find us undaunted; determined toget to our goals.Now, white are the..

© Edgar Albert Guest

I See You'Ve Travelled Some

I See You've Travelled SomeWherever you may chance to be — wherever you may roam,Far away in foreign lands; or just at home sweet home;It always..

© Edgar Albert Guest

For Your Boy And Mine

Your dream and my dream is not that we shall rest,But that our children after us shall know life at its best;For all we care about ourselves—a crust..

© Edgar Albert Guest

A Boy At Christmas

If I could have my wish to-night it would not be for wealth or fame,It would not be for some delight that men who live in luxury claim,But it would..

© Edgar Albert Guest

A Woman's Ways

IT 'S human for a womanTo enjoy a little cry;Though a man will grin and bear 'emAnd pass little troubles by,A woman seeks a pillowAnd her face she..

© Edgar Albert Guest

Hope

Mine is a song of hopeFor the days that lie before;For the grander thingsThe morrow bringsWhen the struggle days are o'er.Dark be the clouds..

© Edgar Albert Guest

All For The Best

Things mostly happen for the best.However hard it seems to-day,When some fond plan has gone astrayOr what you've wished for most is lostAn' you sit..

© Edgar Albert Guest

A Discussion

She put her arms about my neck,And whispered low to me:'I'm thinking daddy, dear, how niceAnd lovely it would beIf only every little girlIn all this..

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Flag

We never knew how much the FlagCould mean, until he went away,We used to boast of it and brag,As something of a by-gone day;But now the Flag can..

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Fellowship Of Books

I care not who the man may be,Nor how his tasks may fret him,Nor where he fares, nor how his caresAnd troubles may beset him,If books have won the..

© Edgar Albert Guest

Kelly Ingram

His name was Kelly Ingram; he was Alabama's son,And he whistled 'Yankee Doodle,' as he stood beside his gun;There was laughter in his make-up, there..

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Call To Service

These are the days when little thoughtsMust cease men's minds to occupy;The nation needs men's larger creeds,Big men must answer to her cry;No longer..

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Joy To Be

Oh, mother, be you brave of heart and keepyour bright eyes shining;Some day the smiles of joy shall start and youshall cease repining.Beyond the dim..

© Edgar Albert Guest

Good Luck

Good luck! That's all I'm saying, as you sail across the sea;The best o' luck, in the parting, is the prayer you get from me.May you never meet a..

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Change

'Twas hard to think that he must go,We knew that we should miss him so,We thought that he must always stayBeside us, laughing, day by day;That he..

© Edgar Albert Guest

Over Here

Pledged to the bravest and the best,We stand, who cannot share the fray,Staunch for the danger and the test.For them at night we kneel and pray.Be..

© Edgar Albert Guest

Everywhere In America

Not somewhere in America, but everywhere to-day,Where snow-crowned mountains hold their heads,the vales where children play,Beside the bench and..

© Edgar Albert Guest

So Easy

So easy to say what another should do,So easy to settle his cares,So easy to tell him what roads to pursue,And dispose of the burdens he bears.It is..

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Chip On Your Shoulder

You'll learn when you're older, that chip on your shoulderWhich you dare other boys to upsetAnd stand up and fight for, and struggle and smite..

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Time For Deeds

We have boasted our courage in moments of ease,Our star-spangled banner we've flung on the breeze;We have taught men to cheer for its beauty and..

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Boy Soldier

Each evening on my lap there climbsA little boy of three,And with his dimpled, chubby fistsHe pounds me shamefully.He gives my beard a vicious tug,He..

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Little Army

Little women, little men,Childhood never comes again.Live it gaily while you may;Give your baby souls to play;March to sound of stick and pan,In your..

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Little Velvet Suit

Last night I got to thinkin' of the pleasant long ago,When I still had on knee breeches, an' I wore a flowing bow,An' my Sunday suit was velvet. Ma..

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Family's Homely Man

There never was a family without its homely man,With legs a little longer than the ordinary plan,An' a shock of hair that brush an' comb can't ever..

© Edgar Albert Guest

The Little Old Man

The little old man with the curve in his backAnd the eyes that are dim and the skin that is slack,So slack that it wrinkles and rolls on his..

© Edgar Albert Guest