Alice Cary Home Poems Poets Alice Cary Poems If I Were A Sunbeam by Alice Cary "If I were a sunbeam, I know what I'd do; Nobility by Alice Cary True worth is in being, not seeming,— In doing, each day that goes by, November by Alice Cary The leaves are fading and falling, The winds are rough and wild, Perseverance by Alice Cary The boy who does a stroke, and stops— Will ne’er a great man be; Pretty Is That Pretty Does by Alice Cary The spider wears a plain brown dress, And she is a steady spinner;