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Arthur Guiterman

I lived from 1871-1943. I was from the United States, and am in the Americas category.

Arthur Guiterman born on November 20, 1871 was an American writer best known for his humorous poems.

He was born of American parents in Vienna and graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1891. He was an editor of the Woman's Home Companion and the Literary Digest.

Guiterman died on January 11, 1943

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  • Pershing at the Front
    The General came in a new tin hat
    To the shell-torn front where the war was at;
    52 lines, 6 comments
  • Strictly Germ-proof
    The  Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup 
    Were playing in the garden when the Bunny gamboled up; 
    18 lines, 5 comments
  • On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness
    The tusks which clashed in mighty brawls
    Of mastodons, are billiard balls.
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • The Chip on the Shoulder
    Learn this now before you are older:
    Don’t go through life with a chip on your shoulder,
    11 lines, 1 comment
  • Sea Sickness
    I must go down to the seas again, where the billows romp and reel,
    So all I ask is a large ship that rides on an even keel,
    13 lines
  • Sex
    Amœbas at the start
    Were not complex;
    31 lines
  • The Legend Of The First Cam-u-el: An Arabian Apologue
    Across the sands of Syria,
    Or possibly Algeria,
    64 lines
  • Pithecanthropus Erectus
    The primitive Pithecanthropus erectus,
    With whom the ethnologists rightly connect us,
    16 lines
  • Hills
    I never loved your plains!--
    Your gentle valleys,
    28 lines
  • Heritage
    This is the land that we love; here our fathers found refuge,
    Here are the grooves of their plows and the mounds of their graves;
    18 lines
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