Men And Dreamers (Edgar Albert Guest Poems)
IT'S one o' my idees that men ain't all of fightin' stock, They ain't all built fer ploughin' or fer ...
IT'S one o' my idees that men ain't all of fightin' stock, They ain't all built fer ploughin' or fer ...
I used to be a peaceful chap as didn't ask for trouble,An' as for rows an' fightin', why, I'd mostly ...
I WONDER if they're bitin' way off yonder in the bay! I wonder if they're fightin' very hard t' git ...
There's a new grace up on Boot Hill, where we've planted Rowdy Pete;He died one evenin', sudden, with his leather ...
Droppin' down to Rio on a buckin' wooden tramp;Takin' water for'r'd till her rotten planks were damp;Pitchin' like a bronco ...
There's a time that you remember,In October or September.Mebbe early in November,When the summer work is done. When the air ...
I went into a public-'ouse to get a pint o' beer, The publican 'e up an' sez, "We serve no ...
We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains, A little front o' Christmas-time an' just be'ind the Rains; Ho! get ...
If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back, If you've ever snigged the washin' from the line, If ...
(Soudan Expeditionary Force) We've fought with many men acrost the seas, An' some of 'em was brave an' some was ...
"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade. "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said. "What ...
"'As anybody seen Bill 'Awkins?" "Now 'ow in the devil would I know?" "'E's taken my girl out walkin', An' ...
You've `eard `ow young Albert Ramsbottom At the zoo up at Blackpool one year With a stick with an `orse's ...
When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore; ...
We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me; Fightin' wiv our bayonets was we; Fightin' 'ard as 'ell we was, ...
Jack would laugh an' joke all day; Never saw a lad so gay; Singin' like a medder lark, Loaded to ...
The poppies gleamed like bloody pools through cotton-woolly mist; The Captain kept a-lookin' at the watch upon his wrist; And ...
I'm crawlin' out in the mangolds to bury wot's left o' Joe -- Joe, my pal, and a good un ...
I'm goin' 'ome to Blighty -- ain't I glad to 'ave the chance! I'm loaded up wiv fightin', and I've ...
You make it in your mess-tin by the brazier's rosy gleam; You watch it cloud, then settle amber clear; You ...
"There's something in your face, Michael, I've seen it all the day; There's something quare that wasn't there when first ...
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