Poem: “No Place To Go” by Edgar A. Guest

A Heap o’ Livin’

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American Literature – American Poetry – Edgar A. Guest – Poems by Edgar A. Guest – A Heap o’ Livin’
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No Place To Go

The happiest nights
    I ever know
  Are those when I’ve
    No place to go,
  And the missus says
    When the day is through:
  “To-night we haven’t
    A thing to do.”

  Oh, the joy of it,
    And the peace untold
  Of sitting ’round
    In my slippers old,
  With my pipe and book
    In my easy chair,
  Knowing I needn’t
    Go anywhere.

  Needn’t hurry
    My evening meal
  Nor force the smiles
    That I do not feel,
  But can grab a book
    From a near-by shelf,
  And drop all sham
    And be myself.

  Oh, the charm of it
    And the comfort rare;
  Nothing on earth
    With it can compare;
  And I’m sorry for him
    Who doesn’t know
  The joy of having
    No place to go.

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American Literature – American Poetry – Edgar A. Guest – Poems by Edgar A. Guest – A Heap o’ Livin’

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