- When Day is Done
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Edgar A. Guest is sometimes known as the "people's poet," noted for his homespun verses of everyday American life and traditional values of home, family, country and faith. This is a collection of his poems reflecting these themes with warmth and humor.
- Chapters
- When Day Is Done
- The Simple Things
- Life Is What We Make It
- What We Need
- A Boy and His Dad
- If I Had Youth
- Looking Back
- God Made This Day for Me
- The Grate Fire
- The Homely Man
- The Joys We Miss
- The Fellowship of Books
- When Sorrow Comes
- Golf Luck
- Contradictin' Joe
- The Better Job
- My Religion
- What I Call Living
- If This Were All
- A Christmas Carol
- Forgotten Boyhood
- The Peaks of Valor
- When the Minister Calls
- The Age of Ink
- No Use Sighin'
- No Children!
- The Loss Is Not So Great
- Dan McGann Declares Himself
- A Boy and His Stomach
- Home and the Office
- He's Taken Out His Papers
- Castor Oil
- A Father's Wish
- No Better Land Than This
- A Boy and His Dog
- Wait Till Your Pa Comes Home
- Nothing to Laugh At
- No Room for Hate
- The Boy and the Flag
- Too Big a Price
- Always Saying "Don't!"
- Boy O' Mine
- To a Little Girl
- A Feller's Hat
- The Good Little Boy
- Green Apple Time
- She Mothered Five
- Little Girls Are Best
- The World and Bud
- Aw Gee Whiz!
- Practicing Time
- The Christmas Gift for Mother
- Bedtime
- The Willing Horse
- Where Children Play
- How Do You Buy Your Money?
- Mother's Day
- When We Play the Fool
- What Makes an Artist
- She Powders Her Nose
- The Chip on Your Shoulder
- All for the Best
- The Kick Under the Table
- Leader of the Gang
- Ma and the Ouija Board
- The Call of the Woods
- Committee Meetings
- Pa and the Monthly Bills
- Bob White
- When Ma Wants Something New
- Sittin' on the Porch
- With Dog and Gun
- Old Mister Laughter
- A Family Row
- The Lucky Man
- Lonely
- The Cookie Jar
- Little Wrangles
- The Wide Outdoors
- Where's Mamma?
- Summer Dreams
- I Ain't Dead Yet
- The Cure for Weariness
- To an Old Friend
- Satisfied With Life
- Autumn Evenings
- Memorial Day
- The Happy Man
- The Song of the Builder
- Old Years and New
- When We're All Alike
- The Things You Can't Forget
- The Making of Friends
- The Deeds of Anger
- I'd Rather Be a Failure
- Couldn't Live Without You
- Just a Boy
- What Home's Intended For
- Safe at Home
- When Friends Drop In
- The Book of Memory
- Pretending Not to See
- The Joys of Home
- We're Dreamers All
- What Is Success?
- The Three Me's
- Brothers All
- When We Understand the Plan
- The Spoiler
- A Vanished Joy
- Carry On
- Life's Single Standard
- Learn to Smile
- The True Man
- Cleaning the Furnace
- Trouble Brings Friends