Author:Edgar Albert Guest

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Edgar Albert Guest
(1881–1959)

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Originally from Birmingham, England, Guest worked for the Detroit Free Press. He was popular in his time; his bright, optimistic style caused him to be called the "People's Poet".

Works

Individual Poems

See each collection for individual poems.

Anthologized

"Fly a Clean Flag", "The Wrist Watch Man", and "The Mother on the Sidewalk" from Patriotic pieces from the Great War (1918)

Collections

A Dozen New Poems (1920)
A Heap o' Livin' (1916)
All That Matters (1922)
All in a Lifetime (1938)
Between You and Me: My Philosophy of Life (1938)
Breakfast Table Chat (1914)
Collected Verse of Edgar Guest (1934)
Faith (1932)
Harbor Lights of Home (1928)
Home Rhymes (1909)
Just Folks (1917)
Just Glad Things (1916)
Life's Highway (1933)
Living the Years (1949)
Mother (1925)
Over Here (1918)
Poems for the Home Folks (1930)
Rhymes of Childhood (1928)
Sunny Songs (1920)
The Friendly Way (1931)
The Light of Faith (1926)
The Passing Throng (1923)
The Path to Home (1919)
Today and Tomorrow (1927)
When Day Is Done (1921)
You (1927)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

This author died in 1959, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 64 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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