Euthansia (Robert William Service Poems)
A sea-gull with a broken wing, I found upon the kelp-strewn shore. It sprawled and gasped; I sighed: "Poor thing! ...
A sea-gull with a broken wing, I found upon the kelp-strewn shore. It sprawled and gasped; I sighed: "Poor thing! ...
Light up your pipe again, old chum, and sit awhile with me; I've got to watch the bannock bake -- ...
He gives me such a bold and curious look, That young American across the way, As if he'd like to ...
I drink my fill of foamy ale I sing a song, I tell a tale, I play the fiddle; My ...
I never saw a face so bright With brilliant blood and joy, As was the grinning mug last night Of ...
My only medals are the scars I've won in weary, peacetime wars, A-fighting for my little brood, To win them ...
'Twas on an iron, icy day I saw a pirate gull down-plane, And hover in a wistful way Nigh where ...
Bob Briggs went in for Government, And helps to run the State; Some day they say he'll represent His party ...
It's cruel cold on the water-front, silent and dark and drear; Only the black tide weltering, only the hissing snow; ...
His face was like a lobster red, His legs were white as mayonnaise: "I've had a jolly lunch," he said, ...
My folks think I'm a serving maid Each time I visit home; They do not dream I ply a trade ...
I would rather drink than eat, And though I superbly sup, Food, I feel, can never beat Delectation of the ...
Unhappy verse, the witness of my unhappy state, Make thy self flutt'ring wings of thy fast flying Thought, and fly ...
VNquiet thought, whom at the first I bred, Of th'inward bale of my loue pined hart: and sithens haue with ...
BEing my selfe captyued here in care, My hart, whom none with seruile bands can tye: but the fayre tresses ...
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich ...
Chameleons feed on light and air: Poets' food is love and fame: If in this wide world of care Poets ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
Emily, A ship is floating in the harbour now, A wind is hovering o'er the mountain's brow; There is a ...
Every night my prayers I say, And get my dinner every day; And every day that I've been good, I ...
Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, ...
A pair of blackbirds warring in the roses, one or two poppies losing their heads, the trampled lawn a battlefield ...
Republic of Niger Nomads are said to know their way by an exact spot in the sky, the touch of ...
But, lo! from forth a copse that neighbours by, A breeding jennet, lusty, young, and proud, Adonis' trampling courser doth ...
NOTE.-Rahel Robert and Varnhagen von Ense were married, after many protestations on her part, in 1814. The marriage-so far as ...
Nature, that washed her hands in milk, And had forgot to dry them, Instead of earth took snow and silk, ...
Reason says, " I will beguile him with the tongue."; Love says, "Be silent. I will beguile him with the ...
Earth no longer hymns the Creator, the seven days of wonder, the Garden is over - all the stories are ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
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