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
joy sorrow despair
Tomorrow--there's no day so fair, It knows no sorrow; A day that banishes despair, Joy rules tomorrow.
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....
children spring joy
Spring's greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.
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.