Edgar Albert Guest (20 August 1881 – 5 August 1959) was a British-born American poet who was popular in the first half of the 20th century and became known as the People's Poet. His poems often had an inspirational and optimistic view of everyday life.
Works
Home Rhymes, from Breakfast Table Chat (1909)
The Panama Canal (1915)
A Heap o' Livin' (1916)
Just Glad Things (1916)
Just Folks (1917)
Over Here (1918)
Poems of Patriotism (1918)
The Path to Homem (1919)
A Dozen New Poems (1920)
Sunny Songs (1920)
Keep Going (Don't Quit) (1921)
When Day Is Done (1921)
Don't Quit (3 March 1921)
All That Matters (1922)
Making The House A Home (1922)
The Passing Throng (1923)
Mother (1925)
The Light of Faith (1926)
The Secret of The Ages (1926)
You (1927)
Harbor Lights of Home (1928)
Rhymes of Childhood (1928)
Poems for the Home Folks (1930)
The Friendly Way (1931)
Faith (1932)
Life's Highway (1933)
Collected Verse of Edgar Guest (1934)
All in a Lifetime (1938)
Between You and Me: My Philosophy of Life (1938)
Today and Tomorrow (1942)
Living the Years (1949)
Sermons We See
Courage
The Proof of Worth
See It Through
Life's Slacker
Team Work
Can't
At Christmas
Things Work Out
Have you Earned your Tommorow