Madam La Maquise (Robert William Service Poems)
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
Father drank himself to death,-- Quite enjoyed it. Urged to draw a sober breath He'd avoid it. 'Save your sympathy,' ...
Before the florid portico I watched the gamblers come and go, While by me on a bench there sat A ...
We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me; Fightin' wiv our bayonets was we; Fightin' 'ard as 'ell we was, ...
Jack would laugh an' joke all day; Never saw a lad so gay; Singin' like a medder lark, Loaded to ...
The portrait there above my bed They tell me is a work of art; My Wife,--since twenty years she's dead: ...
'Twas in a village in Lorraine Whose name I quite forget, I found I needfully was fain To buy a ...
Poets may praise a wattle thatch Doubtfully waterproof; Let me uplift my lowly latch Beneath a rose-tiled roof. Let it ...
I Let others sing of Empire and of pomp beyond the sea, A song of Little Puddleton is good enough ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
In London City I evade For charming Burlington Arcade - For thee in youth I met a maid By name ...
Till midnight her needle she plied To finish her pretty pink dress; "Oh, bless you, my darling," she sighed; "I ...
Oh, it's pleasant sitting here, Seeing all the people pass; You beside your bock of beer, I behind my demi-tasse. ...
Because I've come to eighty odd, I must prepare to meet you, God. What should I do? I cannot pray, ...
Young man, gather gold and gear, they will wear you well; You can thumb your nose at fear, Wish the ...
She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking The pinched economies of thirty years; And there the little shop ...
Upspoke the culprit at the bar, Conducting his own case: 'Your Lordship, I have gone to far, But grant me ...
Here in the Autumn of my days My life is mellowed in a haze. Unpleasant sights are none to clear, ...
Full well I trow that when I die Down drops the curtain; Another show is all my eye And Betty ...
On the ragged edge of the world I'll roam, And the home of the wolf shall be my home, And ...
Ho! we were strong, we were swift, we were brave. Youth was a challenge, and Life was a fight. All ...
He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town, In moccasins and oily buckskin shirt. He's gaunt as ...
I told a truth, a tragic truth That tore the sullen sky; A million shuddered at my sooth And anarchist ...
Brave Thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one, And bounded up five flights of stairs, a gallant garreteer; ...
When I blink sunshine in my eyes And hail the amber morn, Before the rosy dew-drop dries With sparkle on ...
Unpenitent, I grieve to state, Two good men stood by heaven's gate, Saint Peter coming to await. The stopped the ...
The meal was o'er, the lamp was lit, The family sat in its glow; The Mother never ceased to knit, ...
I I took the clock down from the shelf; "At eight," said I, "I shoot myself." It lacked a minute ...
Let us be thankful, Lord, for little things - The song of birds, the rapture of the rose; Cloud-dappled skies, ...
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