Edgar Albert Guest Poems

I'd like to leave but daffodills
to mark my little way,
To leave but tulips red and white
behind me as I stray;
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A boy and his dog make a glorious pair:
No better friendship is found anywhere,
For they talk and they walk and they run and they play,
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This I would claim for my success—not fame nor gold,
Nor the throng's changing cheers from day to day,
Not always ease and fortune's glad display,
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Who once has had a friend has found
The link 'twixt mortal and divine;
Though now he sleeps in hallowed ground,
He lives in memory's sacred shrine;
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I do not think all failure's undeserved,
And all success is merely someone's luck;
Some men are down because they were unnerved,
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My Pa he eats his breakfast
in a funny sort of way:
We hardly ever see him
at the first meal of the day.
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If you would know a happy man,
Go find the fellow who
Has had a bout with trouble grim
And just come smiling through.
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I've told about the times that Ma can't find her pocketbook,
And how we have to hustle round for it to help her look,
But there's another care we know that often comes our way,
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Never a sigh for the cares that she bore for me
Never a thought of the joys that flew by;
Her one regret that she couldn't do more for me,
Thoughtless and selfish, her Master was I.
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At The Millennium
WHENEVER men and women learn
To be themselves from day to day,
To spend no more than what they earn,
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