The Rhyme Of The Restless Ones (Robert William Service Poems)
We couldn't sit and study for the law; The stagnation of a bank we couldn't stand; For our riot blood ...
We couldn't sit and study for the law; The stagnation of a bank we couldn't stand; For our riot blood ...
Father drank himself to death,-- Quite enjoyed it. Urged to draw a sober breath He'd avoid it. 'Save your sympathy,' ...
Three score and ten, the psalmist saith, And half my course is well-nigh run; I've had my flout at dusty ...
There where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon, There where the sullen sun-dogs glare in the snow-bright, ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
Humping it here in the dug-out, Sucking me black dudeen, I'd like to say in a general way, There's nothing ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
I asked a silver sage With race nigh run: 'Tell me in old of age Your wisdom won?' Said he: ...
When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring, To take the pay of ...
Brave Thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one, And bounded up five flights of stairs, a gallant garreteer; ...
You've heard of Belching Billy, likewise known as Windy Bill, As punk a chunk of Yukon scum as ever robbed ...
"The North has got him." --Yukonism. I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did. I ...
My stretcher is one scarlet stain, And as I tries to scrape it clean, I tell you wot -- I'm ...
Lord, I'm grey, my face is run, But by old Harry, I've had my fun; And all about, I seem ...
Oh the wife she tried to tell me that 'twas nothing but the thrumming Of a wood-pecker a-rapping on the ...
I saw three wounded of the war: And the first had lost his eyes; And the second went on wheels ...
In all the pubs from Troon to Ayr Grandfather's father would repair With Bobby Burns, a drouthy pair, The glass ...
Oh, it is good to drink and sup, And then beside the kindly fire To smoke and heap the faggots ...
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day, With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round, I did my decent ...
To Dawson Town came Percy Brown from London on the Thames. A pane of glass was in his eye, and ...
"Hullo, young Jones! with your tie so gay And your pen behind your ear; Will you mark my cheque in ...
In Pat Mahoney's booze bazaar the fun was fast and free, And Ragtime Billy spanked the baby grand; While caroling ...
The poppies gleamed like bloody pools through cotton-woolly mist; The Captain kept a-lookin' at the watch upon his wrist; And ...
"Hae ye heard whit ma auld mither's postit tae me? It fair maks me hamesick," says Private McPhee. "And whit ...
What have we done, Oh Lord, that we Are evil starred? How have we erred and sinned to be So ...
They dumped it on the lonely road, Then like a streak they sped; And as along the way I strode ...
She I'm waiting for the man I hope to wed. I've never seen him - that's the funny part. I ...
A pencil, sir; a penny -- won't you buy? I'm cold and wet and tired, a sorry plight; Don't turn ...
Dogs have a sense beyond our ken - At least my little Trixie had: Tail-wagging when I laughed, and when ...
The Men of Seville are, they say, The laziest of Spain. Consummate artists in delay, Allergical to strain; Fr if ...
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