Insomnia (Robert William Service Poems)
Heigh ho! to sleep I vainly try; Since twelve I haven't closed an eye, And now it's three, and as ...
Heigh ho! to sleep I vainly try; Since twelve I haven't closed an eye, And now it's three, and as ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
EXULT MY MUSE! exult to see Each envious, waspish, jealous thing, Around its harmless venom fling, And dart its powerless ...
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
THOU art no more my bosom's FRIEND; Here must the sweet delusion end, That charm'd my senses many a year, ...
O, let me seize thy pen sublime That paints, in melting dulcet rhyme, The glowing pow'r, the magic art, Th' ...
TELL ME, LOVE, when I rove o'er some far distant plain, Shall I cherish the passion that dwells in my ...
"HERE POPE FIRST SUNG!" O, hallow'd Tree ! Such is the boast thy bark displays; Thy branches, like thy Patron's ...
Beyond the land where Leichhardt went, Beyond Sturt's Western track, The rolling tide of change has sent Some strange J.P.'s ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos; Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis. (Martial, Epigrams 12.84) What dire offence from am'rous causes ...
I saw the Death, and she was seating By quiet entrance at my own home, I saw the doors were ...
'Twas in the year of 1854, and on the 5th November, Which Britain will no doubt long remember, When the ...
'Twas in the year of 1878, and. the winter had set in, Lord Roberts and the British Army their march ...
Silence is in our festal halls -- Sweet son of song! thy course is o'er; In vain on thee sad ...
They may rail at this life -- from the hour I began it I found it a life full of ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
C. Damon come drive thy flocks this way. D. No : 'tis too late they went astray. C. I have ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
I It was the Winter wilde, While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw ...
IT was the Winter wilde, While the Heav'n-born-childe, All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature in aw to ...
You whom I could not save Listen to me. Try to understand this simple speech as I would be ashamed ...
The sky was a midnight blue velvet cloth draping a birdcage and no moon but the breeze was whistling and ...
Today, many will awaken with a fresh sense of inspiration. Why not you? Today, many will open their eyes to ...
You deserve to be credited for defying the opinions and expectations of many of the people around you. When they ...
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