Cocotte (Robert William Service Poems)
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
I look into the aching womb of night; I look across the mist that masks the dead; The moon is ...
My Pa and Ma their honeymoon Passed in an Andulasian June, And though produced in Drury Lane, I must have ...
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
When I went by the meadow gate The chestnut mare would trot to meet me, And as her coming I ...
Alas! I see that thrushes three Are ravishing my old fig tree, In whose green shade I smoked my pipe ...
The woes of men beyond my ken Mean nothing more to me. Behold my world, and Eden hurled From Heaven ...
This is the pay-day up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down; There's money to burn in the ...
A Wintertide we had been wed When Jan went off to sea; And now the laurel rose is red And ...
Full fifty merry maids I heard One summer morn a-singing; And each was like a joyous bird With spring-clear not ...
Ruins in Rome are four a penny, And here along the Appian Way I see the monuments of many Esteemed ...
A very humble pen I ply Beneath a cottage thatch; And in the sunny hours I try To till my ...
Humping it here in the dug-out, Sucking me black dudeen, I'd like to say in a general way, There's nothing ...
In idle dream with pipe in hand I looked across the Square, And saw the little chapel stand In eloquent ...
Missis Moriarty called last week, and says she to me, says she: "Sure the heart of me's broken entirely now ...
He burned a hole in frozen muck, He pierced the icy mould, And there in six-foot dirt he struck A ...
The little pink house is high on the hill And my heart is not what it used to be; It ...
Men have navels more or less; Some are neat, some not Being fat I must confess Mine is far from ...
(The French "Tommy"). Oh, some of us lolled in the chateau, And some of us slinked in the slum; But ...
There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years ...
My lead dog Mike was like a bear; I reckon he was grizzly bred, For when he reared up in ...
'Twas in a village in Lorraine Whose name I quite forget, I found I needfully was fain To buy a ...
Being a writer I receive Sweet screeds from folk of every land; Some are so weird you'd scarce believe, And ...
Moko, the Educated Ape is here, The pet of vaudeville, so the posters say, And every night the gaping people ...
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land, Where all except the flag is strange ...
A mattock high he swung; I watched him at his toil; With never gulp of lung He gashed the ruddy ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
The Sergeant of a Highland Reg- -Iment was drilling of his men; With temper notably on edge He blest them ...
We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure, Of men who played the game and lost or won; Of mad ...
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