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
leadership confusing example
Fine counsel is confusing, but example is always clear
home december tact
Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
determination swings ends
Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.
military winning faces
And you can win, though you face the worst, if you feel that you're going to do it.
military men tests
The proof of a man is the danger test, It shows him up at his worst, or his best.
giving-up dont-give-up fighting
Stick to the fight whenyoure hardest hit
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.
summer lonely spring
If your purse no longer bulges and you've lost your golden treasure, If times you think you're lonely and have hungry grown for pleasure, Don't sit by your hearth and grumble, don't let mind and spirit harden. If it's thrills of joy you wish for get to work and plant a garden! If it's drama that you sigh for, plant a garden and you'll get it You will know the thrill of battle fighting foes that will beset it If you long for entertainment and for pageantry most glowing, Plant a garden and this summer spend your time with green things growing.
funny-life ends ifs
You'll be richer in the end than a prince, if you're a friend.
men age three
For Age is not alone of time, or we should never see men old and bent at forty and men young at seventy-three.
hope work-out spite
But keep on working and hoping still. For in spite of the grumblers who stand about, somehow, it seems, all things work out.
inspirational heart night
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.
want fit knows
I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.
christmas laughter children
At Christmas A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year; He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here; Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before, And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for. He is less a selfish creature than at any other time; When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.