My Chapel (Robert William Service Poems)
In idle dream with pipe in hand I looked across the Square, And saw the little chapel stand In eloquent ...
In idle dream with pipe in hand I looked across the Square, And saw the little chapel stand In eloquent ...
Six bulls I saw as black as jet, With crimsoned horns and amber eyes That chewed their cud without a ...
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land, Where all except the flag is strange ...
I'll wait until my money's gone Before I take the sleeping pills; Then when they find me in the dawn, ...
One day the Great Designer sought His Clerk of Birth and Death. Said he: "Two souls are in my thought, ...
I Let others sing of Empire and of pomp beyond the sea, A song of Little Puddleton is good enough ...
Hot digitty dog! Now, ain't it queer, I've been abroad for over a year; Seen a helluva lot since then, ...
Only a Leather Medal, hanging there on the wall, Dingy and frayed and faded, dusty and worn and old; Yet ...
'Twas in the bleary middle of the hard-boiled Arctic night, I was lonesome as a loon, so if you can, ...
I haled me a woman from the street, Shameless, but, oh, so fair! I bade her sit in the model's ...
If she met him or he met her, I knew that something must occur; For they were just like flint ...
A prisoner speaks: Majority of twenty-three, I face the Judge with joy and glee; For am I not a lucky ...
I'm sitting by the fire tonight, The cat purrs on the rug; The room's abrim with rosy light, Suavely soft ...
Now Fireman Flynn met Hank the Finn where lights of Lust-land glow; "Let's leave," says he, "the lousy sea, and ...
Dick's dead! It was the Polack guard Put powdered glass into his cage When I was tramping round the yard,-- ...
I've sung of Violet de Vere, that slinky, minky dame, Of Gertie of the Diamond Tooth, and Touch-the-Button Nell, And ...
In city shop a hat I saw That to my fancy seemed to strike, I gave my wage to buy ...
"Tell Annie I'll be home in time To help her with her Christmas-tree." That's what he wrote, and hark! the ...
Three widows of the Middle West We're grimly chewing gum; The Lido chef a quail had dressed With garlic and ...
When twenty-one I loved to dream, And was to loafing well inclined; Somehow I couldn't get up steam To welcome ...
'Ave you seen Bill's mug in the Noos to-day? 'E's gyned the Victoriar Cross, they say; Little Bill wot would ...
Today I opened wide my eyes, And stared with wonder and surprise, To see beneath November skies An apple blossom ...
Oh ye whose hearts are resonant, and ring to War's romance, Hear ye the story of a boy, a peasant ...
My Daddy used to wallop me for every small offense: "Its takes a hair-brush back," said he, "to teach kids ...
A little mousey man he was With board, and chalk in hand; And millions were awestruck because They couldn't understand. ...
In the dark and damp of the alley cold, Lay the Christmas tree that hadn't been sold; By a shopman ...
To hell with Government I say; I'm sick of all the piddling pack. I'd like to scram, get clean away, ...
If I could practise what I preach, Of fellows there would few be finer; If I were true to what ...
A pencil, sir; a penny -- won't you buy? I'm cold and wet and tired, a sorry plight; Don't turn ...
Sitting in the dentist's chair, Wishing that I wasn't there, To forget and pass the time I have made this ...
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