Edgar Albert Guest, poet
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Edgar Albert Guest

20 August 1881 – 5 August 1959

  • 9 Poems & Stories
  • 115.3K Reads

About Edgar Albert Guest

Edgar Albert Guest (20 August 1881 – 5 August 1959) was a British-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet. His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life. Works Home Rhymes, from Breakfast Table Chat (1909) The Panama Can…

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Only a dad, with a tired face,Coming home from the daily race,
— Edgar Albert Guest
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Ain t no use as I can seeIn sittin underneath a tree
— Edgar Albert Guest
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Poetry & Stories

  1. The Bachelor s Soliloquy

    To wed, or not to wed; that is the question;Whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer

    1 min read · 12.7K reads

  2. father

    My father knows the proper wayThe nation should be run;

    1 min read · 12.7K reads

  3. Hard Luck

    Ain t no use as I can seeIn sittin underneath a tree

    1 min read · 13.1K reads

  4. Home

    It takes a heap o livin in a house t make it home,A heap o sun an shadder, an ye sometimes have t roam

    2 min read · 12.5K reads

  5. Somebody said

    It Couldn t Be DoneSomebody said that it couldn t be done

    1 min read · 12.7K reads

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