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
being-yourself thinking deeds
You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.
winning men soul
Courage must come from the soul within; the man must furnish the will to win. So figure it out for yourself, my lad. You were born with all that the great have had.
love faults cures
Love has the patience to endure the fault it sees but cannot cure.
men he-man creeds
The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds.
new-year eye years
A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.
littles faults let-me
Let me be a little kinder, Let me be a little blinder to the faults of those around me.
friendship mean funny-friend
I'd like to be the sort of friend that you have been to me. I'd like to be the help that you've been always glad to be; I'd like to mean as much to you each minute of the day, as you have meant, old friend of mine, to me along the way.
sermons
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day
past world way
The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.
risk done coats
There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done, there are thousands to prophesy failure. There are thousands to point out to you, one by one, the dangers that await to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, just take off your coat and go to it; just start to sing as you tackle the thing that "cannot be done," and you'll do it.
shopping world rounds
I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.
simple everyday-things people
I take simple everyday things that happen to me and I figure it happens to a lot of other people and I make simple rhymes out of them.
giving-up winter pie
I'll obey them in the winter when the doctors say to me I must give up ham and spinach, and obedient I'll be. To relieve my indigestion in December they can try, But there's none of them can stop me when it's time for cherry pie.
pie lists dessert
There's no diet list I'll follow that would rule out cherry pie.