Afternoon Tea (Robert W Service Poems)
As I was saying . . . (No, thank you; I never take cream with my tea;Cows weren't allowed in ...
As I was saying . . . (No, thank you; I never take cream with my tea;Cows weren't allowed in ...
My quietness has a man in it, he is transparentand he carries me quietly, like a gondola, through the streets.He ...
We are the slaves of the guns,Serfs to the dominant things;Ours are the eyes and the ears,And the brains of ...
The hawker with his tilted cart pulled up beside the fence,And opened out his wondrous mart with startling eloquence;All sorts ...
Lying in dug-outs, joking idly, wearily;Watching the candle guttering in the draught;Hearing the great shells go high over us, eerilySinging; ...
1I understand the boredom of the clerksfatigue shifting like dunes within their eyesa frightful nausea gumming up the worksthat once ...
Father, dear Father, come home with me nowThe clock in the steeple strikes oneWe've got dover soles, lemon soles, camisoles, ...
Under the sky of battle, under the arch of the guns,Where in a mad red torrent the river of fighting ...
"HE stood up in our khaki with the poise Of perfect soldiership beneath the praise Of the French officer. We ...
How nice to see the picture of a father and his sonMy father is my mother's wife and I'm his ...
Half a league, half a league,Half a league onward —'That is, unless some damnedAirman has blundered,If the map isn't rightWe'll ...
The stage was set, the house was packed,The famous troop began;Our laughter thundered, act by act;Time light as sunbeams ran.Dance ...
We in our haste can only see the small components of the scene We cannot tell what incidents will focus ...
Coming to tell me of her sister stuck in the snow drift the soft snow of this afternoon perfect for ...
Sparks of gold, of silver, splashes of color rising up from the new-fallen snow greeting my lowered head deep in ...
Busy, busy lives, moving from task to task lists and messages, and calls, a barrage of things, things to capture ...
Blocks of snow, piled higher and higher building a wall, a ring a start of an igloo, a fort, a ...
Jerry MacMullen, the millionaire, Driving a red-meat bus out there -- How did he win his Croix de Guerre? Bless ...
AT dawn the ridge emerges massed and dun In the wild purple of the glow'ring sun, Smouldering through spouts of ...
I, too, saw God through mud -- The mud that cracked on cheeks when wretches smiled. War brought more glory ...
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