When Day is Done
Edgar A. Guest
116 chapters · 3 h 17 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, Owlivia, mleigh, SampsonSpeaks, Hayden Charles, Jonathan Gary and others
Miscellaneous
Play ☆ Favorite
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. (Summary by Larry Wilson)
Chapters
1 When Day Is Done 2 min 2 The Simple Things 1 min 3 Life Is What We Make It 1 min 4 What We Need 2 min 5 A Boy and His Dad 2 min 6 If I Had Youth 2 min 7 Looking Back 2 min 8 God Made This Day for Me 2 min 9 The Grate Fire 2 min 10 The Homely Man 2 min 11 The Joys We Miss 2 min 12 The Fellowship of Books 1 min 13 When Sorrow Comes 1 min 14 Golf Luck 2 min 15 Contradictin' Joe 1 min 16 The Better Job 1 min 17 My Religion 2 min 18 What I Call Living 1 min 19 If This Were All 2 min 20 A Christmas Carol 1 min 21 Forgotten Boyhood 2 min 22 The Peaks of Valor 1 min 23 When the Minister Calls 2 min 24 The Age of Ink 2 min 25 No Use Sighin' 1 min 26 No Children! 2 min 27 The Loss Is Not So Great 1 min 28 Dan McGann Declares Himself 2 min 29 A Boy and His Stomach 1 min 30 Home and the Office 1 min 31 He's Taken Out His Papers 1 min 32 Castor Oil 2 min 33 A Father's Wish 2 min 34 No Better Land Than This 2 min 35 A Boy and His Dog 1 min 36 Wait Till Your Pa Comes Home 2 min 37 Nothing to Laugh At 2 min 38 No Room for Hate 2 min 39 The Boy and the Flag 2 min 40 Too Big a Price 2 min 41 Always Saying "Don't!" 2 min 42 Boy O' Mine 2 min 43 To a Little Girl 2 min 44 A Feller's Hat 1 min 45 The Good Little Boy 1 min 46 Green Apple Time 2 min 47 She Mothered Five 2 min 48 Little Girls Are Best 2 min 49 The World and Bud 2 min 50 Aw Gee Whiz! 1 min 51 Practicing Time 2 min 52 The Christmas Gift for Mother 2 min 53 Bedtime 2 min 54 The Willing Horse 2 min 55 Where Children Play 1 min 56 How Do You Buy Your Money? 2 min 57 Mother's Day 1 min 58 When We Play the Fool 2 min 59 What Makes an Artist 3 min 60 She Powders Her Nose 2 min 61 The Chip on Your Shoulder 2 min 62 All for the Best 2 min 63 The Kick Under the Table 2 min 64 Leader of the Gang 2 min 65 Ma and the Ouija Board 3 min 66 The Call of the Woods 1 min 67 Committee Meetings 2 min 68 Pa and the Monthly Bills 2 min 69 Bob White 1 min 70 When Ma Wants Something New 2 min 71 Sittin' on the Porch 1 min 72 With Dog and Gun 2 min 73 Old Mister Laughter 1 min 74 A Family Row 2 min 75 The Lucky Man 2 min 76 Lonely 1 min 77 The Cookie Jar 2 min 78 Little Wrangles 2 min 79 The Wide Outdoors 1 min 80 Where's Mamma? 1 min 81 Summer Dreams 2 min 82 I Ain't Dead Yet 2 min 83 The Cure for Weariness 2 min 84 To an Old Friend 1 min 85 Satisfied With Life 1 min 86 Autumn Evenings 1 min 87 Memorial Day 2 min 88 The Happy Man 2 min 89 The Song of the Builder 2 min 90 Old Years and New 2 min 91 When We're All Alike 2 min 92 The Things You Can't Forget 2 min 93 The Making of Friends 2 min 94 The Deeds of Anger 2 min 95 I'd Rather Be a Failure 2 min 96 Couldn't Live Without You 1 min 97 Just a Boy 2 min 98 What Home's Intended For 1 min 99 Safe at Home 1 min 100 When Friends Drop In 2 min 101 The Book of Memory 2 min 102 Pretending Not to See 2 min 103 The Joys of Home 2 min 104 We're Dreamers All 1 min 105 What Is Success? 1 min 106 The Three Me's 2 min 107 Brothers All 2 min 108 When We Understand the Plan 2 min 109 The Spoiler 1 min 110 A Vanished Joy 3 min 111 Carry On 1 min 112 Life's Single Standard 2 min 113 Learn to Smile 2 min 114 The True Man 2 min 115 Cleaning the Furnace 2 min 116 Trouble Brings Friends 1 min
