Gods In The Gutter (Robert William Service Poems)
I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat, And one was small and crapulous, and one was ...
I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat, And one was small and crapulous, and one was ...
This is the yarn he told me As we sat in Casey's Bar, That Rooshun mug who scammed from the ...
Although you deem it far from nice, And it perchance may hurt you, Let me suggest that cowardice Can masquerade ...
He gives me such a bold and curious look, That young American across the way, As if he'd like to ...
Ah whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too ...
Was it a dreame, or did I see it playne, a goodly table of pure yvory: all spred with iuncats, ...
AH whither, Love, wilt thou now carry me? What wontless fury dost thou now inspire Into my feeble breast, too ...
What guts he had, the Dago lad Who fought that Frenchman grim with guile; For nigh an hour they milled ...
He asked the lady in the train If he might smoke: she smiled consent. So lighting his cigar and fain ...
Said Jones: "I'm glad my wife's not clever; Her intellect is second-rate. If she was witty she would never Give ...
I remember the Roman Emperor, one of the cruellest of them, Who used to visit for pleasure his poor prisoners ...
Before those cruel twins whom at one birth Incestuous Change bore to her father Time, Error and Truth, had hunted ...
Earth, Ocean, Air, belovèd brotherhood! If our great Mother has imbued my soul With aught of natural piety to feel ...
"Throughout these infinite orbs of mingling light, Of which yon earth is one, is wide diffus'd A Spirit of activity ...
BEHOLD, as goblins dark of mien And portly tyrants dyed with crime Change, in the transformation scene, At Christmas, in ...
HAIL! Childish slaves of social rules You had yourselves a hand in making! How I could shake your faith, ye ...
FOR some abiding central source of power, Strong-smitten steady chords, ye seem to flow And, flowing, carry virtue. Far below, ...
It was in the days of a gay British King (In the old fashion'd custom of merry-making) The Palace of ...
Whilst I alone did call upon thy aid, My verse alone had all thy gentle grace, But now my gracious ...
I am twenty-four led to slaughter I survived. The following are empty synonyms: man and beast love and hate friend ...
[As a Tribute of Esteem and Admiration this Poem is inscribed to ROBERT MERRY, Esq. A. M. Member of the ...
"With female Fairies will thy tomb be haunted "And worms will not come to thee." SHAKSPERE. WHEN from Day's closing ...
Deep in th' abyss where frantic horror bides, In thickest mists of vapours fell, Where wily Serpents hissing glare And ...
Here droops the muse! while from her glowing mind, Celestial Sympathy, with humid eye, Bids the light Sylph capricious Fancy ...
SWEET PICTURE of Life's chequer'd hour! Ah, wherefore droop thy blushing head? Tell me, oh tell me, hap'less flow'r, Is ...
LUBIN and KATE, as gossips tell, Were Lovers many a day; LUBIN the damsel lov'd so well, That folks pretend ...
AS doctors give physic by way of prevention, Mat, alive and in health, of his tombstone took care; For delays ...
'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in Writing or in Judging ill, But, of the two, ...
NOTHING so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a ...
Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said, Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead. The dog-star ...
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