The Ballad Of The Black Fox Skin (Robert William Service Poems)
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land, Where all except the flag is strange ...
I never could imagine God: I don't suppose I ever will. Beside His altar fire I nod With senile drowsiness ...
The Countess sprawled beside the sea As naked a she well could be; Indeed her only garments were A "G" ...
In the Northland there were three Pukka Pliers of the pen; Two of them had Fame in fee And were ...
First Ghost To sepulcher my mouldy bones I bough a pile of noble stones, And half a year a sculptor ...
What are you doing here, Tom Thorne, on the white top-knot o' the world, Where the wind has the cut ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee ...
In a strange town in a far land They met amid a throng; They stared, they could not understand How ...
Mary and I were twenty-two When we were wed; A well-matched pair, right smart to view The town's folk said. ...
Poets may praise a wattle thatch Doubtfully waterproof; Let me uplift my lowly latch Beneath a rose-tiled roof. Let it ...
"You're bloody right - I was a Red," The Man from Cook's morosely said. And if our chaps had won ...
Father drank himself to death,-- Quite enjoyed it. Urged to draw a sober breath He'd avoid it. 'Save your sympathy,' ...
I Let others sing of Empire and of pomp beyond the sea, A song of Little Puddleton is good enough ...
His frown brought terror to his foes, But now in twilight of his days The pure perfection of a rose ...
Full fifty merry maids I heard One summer morn a-singing; And each was like a joyous bird With spring-clear not ...
To visit the Escurial We took a motor bus, And there a guide mercurial Took charge of us. He showed ...
Because my teeth are feebly few I cannot bolt my grub like you, But have to chew and chew and ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
Three score and ten, the psalmist saith, And half my course is well-nigh run; I've had my flout at dusty ...
The Greatest Writer of to-day (With Maupassant I almost set him) Said to me in a weary way, The last ...
There where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon, There where the sullen sun-dogs glare in the snow-bright, ...
To have a business of my own With toil and tears, I wore my fingers to the bone For weary ...
I don't think men of eighty odd Should let a surgeon operate; Better to pray for peace with God, And ...
The woes of men beyond my ken Mean nothing more to me. Behold my world, and Eden hurled From Heaven ...
There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years ...
An Ancient gaffer once I knew, Who puffed a pipe and tossed a tankard; He claimed a hundred years or ...
O'er the dark pines she sees the silver moon, And in the west, all tremulous, a star; And soothing sweet ...
He had the grocer's counter-stoop, That little man so grey and neat; His moustache had a doleful droop, He hailed ...
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