The Lunger (Robert William Service Poems)
Jack would laugh an' joke all day; Never saw a lad so gay; Singin' like a medder lark, Loaded to ...
Jack would laugh an' joke all day; Never saw a lad so gay; Singin' like a medder lark, Loaded to ...
He stared at me with sad, hurt eyes, That drab, untidy man; And though my clients I despise I do ...
Come out, O Little Moccasins, and frolic on the snow! Come out, O tiny beaded feet, and twinkle in the ...
A very humble pen I ply Beneath a cottage thatch; And in the sunny hours I try To till my ...
"Flowers, only flowers -- bring me dainty posies, Blossoms for forgetfulness," that was all he said; So we sacked our ...
I never could imagine God: I don't suppose I ever will. Beside His altar fire I nod With senile drowsiness ...
When I went by the meadow gate The chestnut mare would trot to meet me, And as her coming I ...
In idle dream with pipe in hand I looked across the Square, And saw the little chapel stand In eloquent ...
Being a writer I receive Sweet screeds from folk of every land; Some are so weird you'd scarce believe, And ...
You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine, Your harps and your tabors and cymbals and a', But ...
Past ash cans and alley cats, Fetid. overflowing gutters, Leprous lines of rancid flats Where the frowsy linen flutters; With ...
Between the cliff-rise and the beach A slip of emerald I own; With fig and olive, almond, peach, cherry and ...
We have no heart for civil strife, Our burdens we prefer to bear; We long to live a peaceful life ...
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land, Where all except the flag is strange ...
I bought a young and lovely bride, Paying her father gold; Lamblike she rested by my side, As cold as ...
I look into the aching womb of night; I look across the mist that masks the dead; The moon is ...
Full fifty merry maids I heard One summer morn a-singing; And each was like a joyous bird With spring-clear not ...
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; he may not own his roof-tree overhead, He ...
(The Wounded Canadian Speaks) My leg? It's off at the knee. Do I miss it? Well, some. You see I've ...
Now Fireman Flynn met Hank the Finn where lights of Lust-land glow; "Let's leave," says he, "the lousy sea, and ...
The meal was o'er, the lamp was lit, The family sat in its glow; The Mother never ceased to knit, ...
"I'm going, Billy, old fellow. Hist, lad! Don't make any noise. There's Boches to beat all creation, the pitch of ...
There's a four-pronged buck a-swinging in the shadow of my cabin, And it roamed the velvet valley till to-day; But ...
The Spirit of the Unborn Babe peered through the window-pane, Peered through the window-pane that glowed like beacon in the ...
'Twas in a pub in Battersea They call the "Rose and Crown," Quite suddenly, it seemed to me, The Lord ...
I've learned--Of all the friends I've won Dame Nature is the best, And to her like a child I run ...
I bought my little grandchild Ann A bright balloon, And I was such a happy man To hear her croon. ...
She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking The pinched economies of thirty years; And there the little shop ...
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