No Lilies For Lisette (Robert William Service Poems)
Said the Door: "She came in With no shadow of sin; Turned the key in the lock, Slipped out of ...
Said the Door: "She came in With no shadow of sin; Turned the key in the lock, Slipped out of ...
Could Fate ordain a lot for me Beyond all human ills, I think that I would choose to be A ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
"I'll do the old dump in a day," He told me in his brittle way. "Two more, I guess, I'll ...
Mary and I were twenty-two When we were wed; A well-matched pair, right smart to view The town's folk said. ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
I look into the aching womb of night; I look across the mist that masks the dead; The moon is ...
Aye, Montecelli, that's the name. You may have heard of him perhaps. Yet though he never savoured fame, Of those ...
Full fifty merry maids I heard One summer morn a-singing; And each was like a joyous bird With spring-clear not ...
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land, Where all except the flag is strange ...
In Mike Maloney's Nugget bar the hooch was flowin' free, An' One-eyed Mike was shakin' dice wi' Montreal Maree, An ...
What are you doing here, Tom Thorne, on the white top-knot o' the world, Where the wind has the cut ...
Now Eddie Malone got a swell grammyfone to draw all the trade to his store; An' sez he: "Come along ...
I am a Day . . . My sky is grey, My wind is wild, My sea high-piled: In year ...
My Pa and Ma their honeymoon Passed in an Andulasian June, And though produced in Drury Lane, I must have ...
O'er the dark pines she sees the silver moon, And in the west, all tremulous, a star; And soothing sweet ...
Because life's passing show Is little to his mind, There is a man I know Indrawn from human kind. His ...
O God, take the sun from the sky! It's burning me, scorching me up. God, can't You hear my cry? ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
Oh, how good it is to be Foot-loose and heart-free! Just my dog and pipe and I, underneath the vast ...
The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee ...
On this festive first of May, Wending wistfully my way Three sad sights I saw today. The first was such ...
I Let others sing of Empire and of pomp beyond the sea, A song of Little Puddleton is good enough ...
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day, With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round, I did my decent ...
I love the cheery bustle Of children round the house, The tidy maids a-hustle, The chatter of my spouse; The ...
The cruel war was over -- oh, the triumph was so sweet! We watched the troops returning, through our tears; ...
When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay, I hope that it won't ...
She'd bring to me a skein of wool And beg me to hold out my hands; so on my pipe ...
Because I have ten thousand pounds I sit upon my stern, And leave my living tranquilly for other folks to ...
Time, the Jester, jeers at you; Your life's a fleeting breath; Your birthday's flimsy I.O.U. To that old devil, Death. ...
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