A Plea (Robert William Service Poems)
Why need we newer arms invent, Poor peoples to destroy? With what we have let's be content And perfect their ...
Why need we newer arms invent, Poor peoples to destroy? With what we have let's be content And perfect their ...
Six bulls I saw as black as jet, With crimsoned horns and amber eyes That chewed their cud without a ...
Something's wrong in Pigeon-land; 'Tisn't as it used to be, When the pilgrim, corn in hand, Courted us with laughing ...
I've sung of Violet de Vere, that slinky, minky dame, Of Gertie of the Diamond Tooth, and Touch-the-Button Nell, And ...
(With apologies to the singer of the "Song of the Banjo".) I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone; ...
So crystal clear it is to me That when I die I cease to be, All else seems sheer stupidity. ...
To tribulations of mankind Dame Nature is indifferent; To human sorrow she is blind, And deaf to human discontent. Mid ...
Since all that is was ever bound to be; Since grim, eternal laws our Being bind; And both the riddle ...
Stupidity, woe's anodyne, Be kind and comfort me in mine; Smooth out the furrows of my brow, Make me as ...
I've made my Will. I don't believe In luxury and wealth; And to those loving ones who grieve My age ...
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