Edgar Albert Guest Poems

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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Less hate and greed
Is what we need
And more of service true;
More men to love
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When sorrow comes, as come it must,
In God a man must place his trust.
There is no power in mortal speech
The anguish of his soul to reach,
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YOU can't pay back in dollars what your father does for you,
You can't repay in kindness all the tenderness he shows;
You little know the perils he has safely brought you through,
And the wealth of Rockefeller this account would never close.
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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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OTHERS may laugh at my feeble endeavor
To capture life's prizes, and others may sneer;
The whole world may loudly declare I shall never
Be worthy the gunpowder to blow me from here.
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Get to understand the lad-
He's not eager to be bad;
If the right he always knew,
He would be as old as you.
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He was going to be all that a mortal should be
Tomorrow.
No one should be kinder or braver than he
Tomorrow.
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There are different kinds of heroes, there are some you hear about.
They get their pictures printed, and their names the newsboys shout;
There are heroes known to glory that were not afraid to die
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