Little Puddleton (Robert William Service Poems)
I Let others sing of Empire and of pomp beyond the sea, A song of Little Puddleton is good enough ...
I Let others sing of Empire and of pomp beyond the sea, A song of Little Puddleton is good enough ...
Alas! I see that thrushes three Are ravishing my old fig tree, In whose green shade I smoked my pipe ...
In idle dream with pipe in hand I looked across the Square, And saw the little chapel stand In eloquent ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
While for me gapes the greedy grave It don't make sense That I should have a crazy crave To paint ...
Aye, Montecelli, that's the name. You may have heard of him perhaps. Yet though he never savoured fame, Of those ...
For oh, when the war will be over We'll go and we'll look for our dead; We'll go when the ...
A Belgian Priest-Soldier Speaks; GURR! You cochon! Stand and fight! Show your mettle! Snarl and bite! Spawn of an accursed ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
In a strange town in a far land They met amid a throng; They stared, they could not understand How ...
Full fifty merry maids I heard One summer morn a-singing; And each was like a joyous bird With spring-clear not ...
His frown brought terror to his foes, But now in twilight of his days The pure perfection of a rose ...
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 ...
Now Eddie Malone got a swell grammyfone to draw all the trade to his store; An' sez he: "Come along ...
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 ...
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
My glass is filled, my pipe is lit, My den is all a cosy glow; And snug before the fire ...
What I seek far yet seldom find Is large simplicity of mind In fellow men; For I have sprouted from ...
Each day when it's anighing three Old Dick looks at the clock, Then proudly brings my stick to me To ...
I never killed a bear because I always thought them critters was So kindo' cute; Though round my shack they ...
When I have come with happy heart to sixty years and ten, I'll buy a boat and sail away upon ...
Till midnight her needle she plied To finish her pretty pink dress; "Oh, bless you, my darling," she sighed; "I ...
I sat her in her baby chair, And set upon its tray Her kewpie doll and teddy bear, But no, ...
Pines against the sky, Pluming the purple hill; Pines . . . and I wonder why, Heart, you quicken and ...
The cruel war was over -- oh, the triumph was so sweet! We watched the troops returning, through our tears; ...
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