Contentment (Robert William Service Poems)
An Ancient gaffer once I knew, Who puffed a pipe and tossed a tankard; He claimed a hundred years or ...
An Ancient gaffer once I knew, Who puffed a pipe and tossed a tankard; He claimed a hundred years or ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
Aye, Montecelli, that's the name. You may have heard of him perhaps. Yet though he never savoured fame, Of those ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
I'll wait until my money's gone Before I take the sleeping pills; Then when they find me in the dawn, ...
Mary and I were twenty-two When we were wed; A well-matched pair, right smart to view The town's folk said. ...
I was Mojeska's leading man And famous parts I used to play, But now I do the best I can ...
In Mike Maloney's Nugget bar the hooch was flowin' free, An' One-eyed Mike was shakin' dice wi' Montreal Maree, An ...
We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me; Fightin' wiv our bayonets was we; Fightin' 'ard as 'ell we was, ...
Because my teeth are feebly few I cannot bolt my grub like you, But have to chew and chew and ...
Three score and ten, the psalmist saith, And half my course is well-nigh run; I've had my flout at dusty ...
I don't think men of eighty odd Should let a surgeon operate; Better to pray for peace with God, And ...
My Pa and Ma their honeymoon Passed in an Andulasian June, And though produced in Drury Lane, I must have ...
There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years ...
The clover was in blossom, an' the year was at the June, When Flap-jack Billy hit the town, likewise O'Flynn's ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
I never could imagine God: I don't suppose I ever will. Beside His altar fire I nod With senile drowsiness ...
Humping it here in the dug-out, Sucking me black dudeen, I'd like to say in a general way, There's nothing ...
Gas got me in the first World War, And all my mates at rest are laid. I felt I might ...
Oh, have you forgotten those afternoons With riot of roses and amber skies, When we thrilled to the joy of ...
I knew three sisters,--all were sweet; Wishful to wed was I, And wondered which would mostly meet The matrimonial tie. ...
When I am dead I will not care How future generations fare, For I will be so unaware. Though fields ...
I ran a nail into my hand, The wound was hard to heal; So bitter was the pain to stand ...
It was foretold by sybils three that in an air crash he would die. "I'll fool their prophesy," said he; ...
The sky is like an envelope, One of those blue official things; And, sealing it, to mock our hope, The ...
If we could roll back History A century, let's say, And start from there, I'm sure that we Would find ...
I'm gatherin' flowers by the wayside to lay on the grave of Bill; I've sneaked away from the billet, 'cause ...
"The North has got him." --Yukonism. I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did. I ...
Up in my garret bleak and bare I tilted back on my broken chair, And my three old pals were ...
The Judge looked down, his face was grim, He scratched his ear; The gangster's moll looked up at him With ...
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