Ellwood Roberts Home Poems Poets Ellwood Roberts Poems The Farmer by Ellwood Roberts Toiling early and toiling late, Toiling patiently, day by day; Life a Book by Ellwood Roberts Life is a book, 'tis said, on whose blank pages A record fair or full of blots we trace; The Good Old Ways by Ellwood Roberts Who has not been disgusted oft Because of senseless change; Forgiveness by Ellwood Roberts In human speech there is no harder word To utter, though we know that we have erred, August by Ellwood Roberts Now sober August comes—the scene, Beneath the Summer's sun still fair;