The Ballad Of The Brand (Robert William Service Poems)
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
'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 ...
Nothing has changed. The body is susceptible to pain, it must eat and breathe air and sleep, it has thin ...
As, when a lofty pile is raised, We never hear the workmen praised, Who bring the lime, or place the ...
Whether the Turkish new moon minded be To fill his horns this year on Christian coast; How Poles' right king ...
Alas, have I not pain enough, my friend, Upon whose breast a fiercer gripe doth tire, Than did on him ...
"Hullo, young Jones! with your tie so gay And your pen behind your ear; Will you mark my cheque in ...
He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town, In moccasins and oily buckskin shirt. He's gaunt as ...
Behold! the Spanish flag they're raising Before the Palace courtyard gate; To watch its progress bold and blazing Two hundred ...
Oh you who have daring deeds to tell! And you who have felt Ambition's spell! Have you heard of the ...
I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie, Whenever, wherever or whatsoever the manner of death ...
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still, While comments of your praise, richly compiled, Reserve their character with golden ...
O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou art all the better part of me? What can ...
I DRANK musty ale at the Illinois Athletic Club with the millionaire manufacturer of Green River butter one night And ...
(Handbook for Quarreling Lovers)I THOUGHT of offering you apothegms. I might have said, "Dogs bark and the wind carries it ...
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain, Lest sorrow lend me ...
O, how thy worth with manners may I sing, When thou art all the better part of me? What can ...
My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still, While comments of your praise, richly compiled, Reserve their character with golden ...
Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain; Lest sorrow lend me ...
Fear, like a living fire that only death Might one day cool, had now in Avon's eyes Been witness for ...
And there we were together again- Together again, we three: Morgan, Fingal, fiddle, and all, They had come for the ...
To Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride ...
The First Epistle Awake, my ST. JOHN!(1) leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let ...
Ne Rubeam, Pingui donatus Munere (Horace, Epistles II.i.267) While you, great patron of mankind, sustain The balanc'd world, and open ...
Why, having won her, do I woo? Because her spirit's vestal grace Provokes me always to pursue, But, spirit-like, eludes ...
Our fathers, brave men were and strong, And whisky was their daily liquor; They used to move the world along ...
Oh, Mulligan's bar was the deuce of a place To drink, and to fight, and to gamble and race; The ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
Oh, there once was a lady, and so I've been told, Whose lover grew weary, whose lover grew cold. "My ...
My soul looked down from a vague height with Death, As unremembering how I rose or why, And saw a ...
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