The Aftermath (Robert William Service Poems)
Although my blood I've shed In war's red wrath, Oh how I darkly dread Its aftermath! Oh how I fear ...
Although my blood I've shed In war's red wrath, Oh how I darkly dread Its aftermath! Oh how I fear ...
Clorinda met me on the way As I came from the train; Her face was anything but gay, In fact, ...
He dreamed away his hours in school; He sat with such an absent air, The master reckoned him a fool, ...
I don't know how the fishes feel, but I can't help thinking it odd, That a gay young flapper of ...
Hot digitty dog! Now, ain't it queer, I've been abroad for over a year; Seen a helluva lot since then, ...
I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat, And one was small and crapulous, and one was ...
Of course you've heard of the Nancy Lee, and how she sailed away On her famous quest of the Arctic ...
Little Annabelle to please, (Lacking grace, I grant), Grandpa down on hands and knees Plays the elephant. Annabelle shrieks with ...
My garden hath a slender path With ivy overgrown, A secret place where once would pace A pot all alone; ...
Said Seeker of the skies to me: "Behold yon starry host ashine! When Heaven's harmony you see How can you ...
A thousand books my library Contains; And all are primed, it seems to me With brains. Mine are so few ...
The Princess was of ancient line, Of royal race was she; Like cameo her face was fine, With sad serentiy: ...
Since four decades you've been to me Both Guide and Friend, I fondly hope you'll always be, Right to the ...
I had a dream, a dream of dread: I thought that horror held the house; A burglar bent above my ...
Said Lenin's ghost to Stalin's ghost: "Mate with me in the Tomb; Then day by day the rancid host May ...
Because my eyes were none to bright Strong spectacles I bought, And lo! there sprang into my sight A life ...
The Junior God looked from his place In the conning towers of heaven, And he saw the world through the ...
Dames should be doomed to dungeons Who masticate raw onions. She was the cuddly kind of Miss A man can ...
I like to look at fishermen And oftentimes I wish One would be lucky now and then And catch a ...
My garden robin in the Spring Was rapturous with glee, And followed me with wistful wing From pear to apple ...
Life, you've been mighty good to me, Yet here's the end of the trail; No more mountain, moor and sea, ...
With barbwire hooch they filled him full, Till he was drunker than all hell, And then they peddled him the ...
Nurse, won't you let him in? He's barkin' an' scratchen' the door, Makin' so dreffel a din I jest can't ...
This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye, As I smoked my ...
There were twin artists A. and B. Who painted pictures two, And hung them in my galley For everyone to ...
A grey gull hovered overhead, Then wisely flew away. 'In half a jiffy you'll be dead,' I thought I heard ...
When your marrer bone seems 'oller, And you're glad you ain't no taller, And you're all a-shakin' like you 'ad ...
Oh the wife she tried to tell me that 'twas nothing but the thrumming Of a wood-pecker a-rapping on the ...
"Tell Annie I'll be home in time To help her with her Christmas-tree." That's what he wrote, and hark! the ...
"This bunch of violets," he said, "Is for my daughter dear. Since that glad morn when she was wed It ...
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