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
believe thinking fishing
Along a stream that raced and ran Through tangled trees and over stones, That long had heard the pipes o' Pan And shared the joys that nature owns, I met a fellow fisherman, Who greeted me in cheerful tones. . . . . Foes think the bad in him they've guessed And prate about the wrong they scan; Friends that have seen him at his best Believe they know his every plan; I know him better than the rest, I know him as a fisherman.
friendship simple needs
Be a friend. You don't need glory. Friendship is a simple story.
determination swings ends
Determination is the thing on which you can depend. It plods along without a swing, but gets there in the end.
home december tact
Every thought and every act were to keep this home in tact.
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.
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.
begun coat somebody took
Somebody scoffed, "Oh, you'll never to that --/ At least no one ever has done it";/ But he took off his coat and he took off his hat,/ And the first thing we knew, he'd begun it.
action best everybody good men preachers
The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds,/ For to see good put in action is what everybody needs.
although bear beautiful belief bitter cannot cease dead death divinely fearful gained god good grief heaven joys leave loved meant morning none religion seek seem seemed soon swept trust wicked wise wonder
Often we wonder in our grief what is gained by our belief? Although night, and morning we pray, still our joys are swept away. And loved ones we would keep, with the dead are called to sleep. None is wise enough to say why the wicked seem to stay, and the beautiful and good leave before we think they should. But if death seemed always just, soon in God wed cease to trust. If for evil, death were meant as a bitter punishment; should the wicked only die, then heaven we seek on high. Having none we long to see would a fearful religion be. It is only by belief we are comforted in grief; it is only by our trust that the God we love is just. That we bear divinely planned. Griefs we cannot understand.
bit doubting lift tackled
With a lift of his chin, and a bit of a grin/ Without any doubting or "quit it,"/ He started to sing, as he tackled the thing/ That couldn't be done, and he did it.
children spring joy
Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.
goal choices mind
You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.
friendship sweet joy
The Making of Friends Life is sweet because of the friends we have made And the things which in common we share; We want to live on, not because of ourselves, But because of the ones who would care. It's living and doing for somebody else On that all of life's splendor depends, And the joy of it all, when we count it all up, Is found in the making of friends....
motivational success way
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day; I'd rather one should walk with me than merely tell the way.