My Bay’nit (Robert William Service Poems)
When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore; ...
When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore; ...
We couldn't sit and study for the law; The stagnation of a bank we couldn't stand; For our riot blood ...
(The French "Tommy"). Oh, some of us lolled in the chateau, And some of us slinked in the slum; But ...
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
In the moonless, misty night, with my little pipe alight, I am sitting by the camp-fire's fading cheer; Oh, the ...
Grimy men with picks and shovels Who in darkness sweat unseen, Climb from out your lousy hovels, Build a palace ...
I'll wait until my money's gone Before I take the sleeping pills; Then when they find me in the dawn, ...
Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the road from Mons to Wipers (I've 'ammered out this ditty with me bruised and ...
For supper we had curried tripe. I washed the dishes, wound the clock; Then for awhile I smoked my pipe ...
There's a four-pronged buck a-swinging in the shadow of my cabin, And it roamed the velvet valley till to-day; But ...
Within a pub that's off the Strand and handy to the bar, With pipe in mouth and mug in hand ...
Till midnight her needle she plied To finish her pretty pink dress; "Oh, bless you, my darling," she sighed; "I ...
I've sung of Violet de Vere, that slinky, minky dame, Of Gertie of the Diamond Tooth, and Touch-the-Button Nell, And ...
One said: Thy life is thine to make or mar, To flicker feebly, or to soar, a star; It lies ...
I'm goin' 'ome to Blighty -- ain't I glad to 'ave the chance! I'm loaded up wiv fightin', and I've ...
Beneath the trees I lounged at ease And watched them speed the pace; They swerved and swung, they clutched and ...
We brought him in from between the lines: we'd better have let him lie; For what's the use of risking ...
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day, With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round, I did my decent ...
The English and the French were met Upon the field of future battle; The foes were formidably set And waiting ...
The man above was a murderer, the man below was a thief; And I lay there in the bunk between, ...
You talk o' prayer an' such - Well, I jest don't know how; I guess I got as much Religion ...
The poppies gleamed like bloody pools through cotton-woolly mist; The Captain kept a-lookin' at the watch upon his wrist; And ...
Ever in the ebb and flow Of my dreams that come and go, Reader, I have you in mind, Humbly ...
What have we done, Oh Lord, that we Are evil starred? How have we erred and sinned to be So ...
All day with brow of anxious thought The dictionary through, Amid a million words he sought The sole one that ...
I've got a little job on 'and, the time is drawin' nigh; At seven by the Captain's watch I'm due ...
A sea-gull with a broken wing, I found upon the kelp-strewn shore. It sprawled and gasped; I sighed: "Poor thing! ...
Sweet maiden, why disguise The beauty of your eyes With glasses black? Although I'm well aware That you are more ...
Smith, great writer of stories, drank; found it immortalized his pen; Fused in his brain-pan, else a blank, heavens of ...
Said Jones: "I'm glad my wife's not clever; Her intellect is second-rate. If she was witty she would never Give ...
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