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Born in August 20, 1881 / Died in August 5, 1959 / United States / English

Poems by Edgar Albert Guest

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Fatherhood

... Who, think you, will train him rightly, ...

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Do You?

... With your neighbors you 're fair, but are you on the square ...

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Show The Flag

... That comes singing through the trees ...

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America

... Our land has stretched her welcoming shore ...

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Committee Meetings

...   Is bright with joy and gay with singing, ...

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Childless

... That for the home they've built to share ...

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Independence Day

... Fringed with mountains and decked with flowers, ...

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Success And Failure

... Some men are down because they were unnerved, ...

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A Man

... Doesn't keep all his praise for the brother ...

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St. Valentine's Day

...   Yet of life's greatest conquest they are still, ...

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Fixing The Shame

... " But I like to think that the Judge on High ...

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The Sorry Hostess

... But she hoped that we'd manage somehow to be fed, ...

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The Pay Envelope

... Would you say of your men, when the week has been turned, ...

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The Choir At Pixley

... Jus' sweet, simple strains of music, but my soul they always stirred, ...

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The Cost Of Praise

... "Ah me," I sighed, " through all my days, I've never heard such words of praise, ...