Edgar Guest
Edgar Guest
Edgar Albert Guestwas a prolific English-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 August 1881
CountryUnited States of America
song prayer fun
Give me the end of the year an' its fun When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done; Bring all the wanderers home to the nest, Let me sit down with the ones I love best, Hear the old voices still ringin' with song, See the old faces unblemished by wrong, See the old table with all of its chairs An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.
giving-up dont-give-up fighting
Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit
military men tests
The proof of a man is the danger test, It shows him up at his worst, or his best.
home december tact
Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
leadership confusing example
Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
toss persons
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside.
take-a-chance defeated accomplish
If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.
happiness men light
The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.
struggle want able
But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.
love laughing doe
All the world loves a lover, but how it does laugh at his love letters.
way wasting-time wealth
Oh, you'll not be any poorer if you smile along your way. And your lot will not be harder for the kindly things you say. Don't imagine you are wasting time for others that you spend. You can rise to wealth and glory and still pause to be a friend.
dream struggle men
So long as men shall be on earth, there will be tasks for them to do. Some way for them to show their worth. Each day shall bring its problems new. And men shall dream of mightier deeds than ever have been done before. There always shall be human needs for men to work and struggle for.
children years jewels
Children...they string our joys, like jewels bright, upon the thread of years.
wisdom knowledge sleep
Columbus dreamed of an unknown shore at the rim of a far flung sky.