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Edgar Albert Guest
Edgar Albert Guest (1881 - 1959 / Birmingham / England)
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Eddie Guest was born in Birmingham, England in 1881, moving to Michigan USA as a young child, it was here he was educated. In 1895, the year before .. more >>
9 poems of Edgar Albert Guest
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  ''Just start to sing as you tackle the thing
That "cannot be done," and you'll do it.''
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959), Anglo-American poet. It Couldn't Be Done (l. 23-24). . . Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed...
 
  ''Somebody said that it couldn't be done,
But he with a chuckle replied
That "maybe it couldn't," but he would be one
Who wouldn't say so till he'd tried.''
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959), Anglo-American poet. It Couldn't Be Done (l. 1-4). . . Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. ...
 
  ''It ain't home t' ye, though it be the palace of a king,
Until somehow yer soul is sort o' wrapped round everything.''
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959), Anglo-American poet. Home (l. 7-8). . . Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxfor...
 
  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
Afore ye really 'preciate the things ye lef' behind,
An' hunger fer 'em so...
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959), Anglo-American poet. Home (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxfor...
 
  ''Ye've got t' weep t' make it home, ye've got t' sit an' sigh''
Edgar Albert Guest (1881-1959), Anglo-American poet. Home (l. 17). . . Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxford...

 
 
 
 
 
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