Tourists (Robert William Service Poems)
In a strange town in a far land They met amid a throng; They stared, they could not understand How ...
In a strange town in a far land They met amid a throng; They stared, they could not understand How ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
Pedlar's coming down the street, Housewives beat a swift retreat. Don't you answer to the bell; Heedless what she has ...
I bought a young and lovely bride, Paying her father gold; Lamblike she rested by my side, As cold as ...
There's a drip of honeysuckle in the deep green lane; There's old Martin jogging homeward on his worn old wain; ...
In Mike Maloney's Nugget bar the hooch was flowin' free, An' One-eyed Mike was shakin' dice wi' Montreal Maree, An ...
My Pa and Ma their honeymoon Passed in an Andulasian June, And though produced in Drury Lane, I must have ...
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
O God, take the sun from the sky! It's burning me, scorching me up. God, can't You hear my cry? ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
A Frenchman and an Englishman Resolved to fight a duel, And hit upon a savage plan, Because their hate was ...
In the moonless, misty night, with my little pipe alight, I am sitting by the camp-fire's fading cheer; Oh, the ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
Moko, the Educated Ape is here, The pet of vaudeville, so the posters say, And every night the gaping people ...
'A shilling's worth of quinine, please,' The customer demanded. The druggist went down on his knees And from a cupboard ...
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
I'll wait until my money's gone Before I take the sleeping pills; Then when they find me in the dawn, ...
I ran a nail into my hand, The wound was hard to heal; So bitter was the pain to stand ...
Oh, it's pleasant sitting here, Seeing all the people pass; You beside your bock of beer, I behind my demi-tasse. ...
In the little Crimson Manual it's written plain and clear That who would wear the scarlet coat shall say good-bye ...
Oh the wife she tried to tell me that 'twas nothing but the thrumming Of a wood-pecker a-rapping on the ...
I never thought that Bill could say A proper prayer; 'Twas more in his hard-bitten way To cuss and swear; ...
The Princess was of ancient line, Of royal race was she; Like cameo her face was fine, With sad serentiy: ...
"The North has got him." --Yukonism. I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did. I ...
What was the blackest sight to me Of all that campaign? A naked woman tied to a tree With jagged ...
In the wilds of Madagascar, Dwelt a Boola-boola maid; For her hand young men would ask her, But she always ...
There's a cry from out the loneliness -- oh, listen, Honey, listen! Do you hear it, do you fear it, ...
I sat her in her baby chair, And set upon its tray Her kewpie doll and teddy bear, But no, ...
All day with brow of anxious thought The dictionary through, Amid a million words he sought The sole one that ...
Dick's dead! It was the Polack guard Put powdered glass into his cage When I was tramping round the yard,-- ...
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