The Spirit of the Home, by Edgar A Guest

A Mother’s Day Poem

My mom loaned me a book recently. The Passing Throng, an old book of poems by Edgar A Guest. The publication date is 1923 and the poems reflect their time. They’re about simple, everyday things with titles like “The White Oak” and “Dirty Hands.”

If he were to try submitting the poetry collection these days, he would likely get a variety of stock rejecti…