Over The Parapet (Robert William Service Poems)
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
On this festive first of May, Wending wistfully my way Three sad sights I saw today. The first was such ...
He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town, In moccasins and oily buckskin shirt. He's gaunt as ...
Say! You've struck a heap of trouble -- Bust in business, lost your wife; No one cares a cent about ...
I I took the clock down from the shelf; "At eight," said I, "I shoot myself." It lacked a minute ...
My daughter Susie, aged two, Apes me in every way, For as my household chores I do With brooms she ...
I'm one of these haphazard chaps Who sit in cafes drinking; A most improper taste, perhaps, Yet pleasant, to my ...
I've sung of Violet de Vere, that slinky, minky dame, Of Gertie of the Diamond Tooth, and Touch-the-Button Nell, And ...
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
I'm goin' 'ome to Blighty -- ain't I glad to 'ave the chance! I'm loaded up wiv fightin', and I've ...
(With apologies to the singer of the "Song of the Banjo".) I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone; ...
I never saw a face so bright With brilliant blood and joy, As was the grinning mug last night Of ...
Till midnight her needle she plied To finish her pretty pink dress; "Oh, bless you, my darling," she sighed; "I ...
One said: Thy life is thine to make or mar, To flicker feebly, or to soar, a star; It lies ...
Beyond the Rocking Bridge it lies, the burg of evil fame, The huts where hive and swarm and thrive the ...
Because my overcoat's in pawn, I choose to take my glass Within a little bistro on The rue du Montparnasse; ...
She was a Philistine spick and span, He was a bold Bohemian. She had the mode, and the last at ...
In the dark and damp of the alley cold, Lay the Christmas tree that hadn't been sold; By a shopman ...
A pencil, sir; a penny -- won't you buy? I'm cold and wet and tired, a sorry plight; Don't turn ...
Two blind men met. Said one: "This earth Has been a blackout from my birth. Through darkness I have groped ...
Heigh ho! to sleep I vainly try; Since twelve I haven't closed an eye, And now it's three, and as ...
I Flat as a drum-head stretch the haggard snows; The mighty skies are palisades of light; The stars are blurred; ...
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