If You Had The Choice Of Two Women To Wed (Robert William Service Poems)
If you had the choice of two women to wed,(Though of course the idea is quite absurd)And the first from ...
Robert William Service Poems on Curiosity (31 Poems)
L’Envoi (Robert William Service Poems)
We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure, Of men who played the game and lost or won; Of mad ...
Over The Parapet (Robert William Service Poems)
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
Cocotte (Robert William Service Poems)
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
Ant Hill (Robert William Service Poems)
Black ants have made a musty mound My purple pine tree under, And I am often to be found, Regarding ...
Prelude (Robert William Service Poems)
I sing no idle songs of dalliance days, No dreams Elysian inspire my rhyming; I have no Celia to enchant ...
A Song Of Success (Robert William Service Poems)
Ho! we were strong, we were swift, we were brave. Youth was a challenge, and Life was a fight. All ...
Montreal Maree (Robert William Service Poems)
You've heard of Belching Billy, likewise known as Windy Bill, As punk a chunk of Yukon scum as ever robbed ...
The Wonderer (Robert William Service Poems)
I wish that I could understand The moving marvel of my Hand; I watch my fingers turn and twist, The ...
The Three Tommies (Robert William Service Poems)
That Barret, the painter of pictures, what feeling for color he had! And Fanning, the maker of music, such melodies ...
Lost (Robert William Service Poems)
"Black is the sky, but the land is white-- (O the wind, the snow and the storm!)-- Father, where is ...
The Man From Athabaska (Robert William Service Poems)
Oh the wife she tried to tell me that 'twas nothing but the thrumming Of a wood-pecker a-rapping on the ...
Wounded (Robert William Service Poems)
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day, With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round, I did my decent ...
The Nostomaniac (Robert William Service Poems)
On the ragged edge of the world I'll roam, And the home of the wolf shall be my home, And ...
The Afflicted (Robert William Service Poems)
Softly every night they come To the picture show, That old couple, deaf and dumb In the second row; Wistful ...
The Spell Of The Yukon (Robert William Service Poems)
I wanted the gold, and I sought it, I scrabbled and mucked like a slave. Was it famine or scurvy ...
A Song Of The Sandbags (Robert William Service Poems)
No, Bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh (The cove be'ind the sandbags ain't a death-or-glory cuss). And though ...
A Snifter (Robert William Service Poems)
After working hard all day In the office, How much worse on homeward way My old cough is! Barney's Bar ...
The Outlaw (Robert William Service Poems)
A wild and woeful race he ran Of lust and sin by land and sea; Until, abhorred of God and ...
Raising The Flag (Robert William Service Poems)
Behold! the Spanish flag they're raising Before the Palace courtyard gate; To watch its progress bold and blazing Two hundred ...
My Hour (Robert William Service Poems)
Day after day behold me plying My pen within an office drear; The dullest dog, till homeward hieing, Then lo! ...
Sinister Sooth (Robert William Service Poems)
Because my eyes were none to bright Strong spectacles I bought, And lo! there sprang into my sight A life ...
Visibility (Robert William Service Poems)
Because my eyes were none to bright Strong spectacles I bought, And lo! there sprang into my sight A life ...
Bonehead Bill (Robert William Service Poems)
I wonder 'oo and wot 'e was, That 'Un I got so slick. I couldn't see 'is face because The ...
The Junior God (Robert William Service Poems)
The Junior God looked from his place In the conning towers of heaven, And he saw the world through the ...
Mud (Robert William Service Poems)
Mud is Beauty in the making, Mud is melody awaking; Laughter, leafy whisperings, Butterflies with rainbow wings; Baby babble, lover's ...
Success (Robert William Service Poems)
You ask me what I call Success - It is, I wonder, Happiness? It is not wealth, it is not ...
The Joy Of Little Things (Robert William Service Poems)
It's good the great green earth to roam, Where sights of awe the soul inspire; But oh, it's best, the ...
Laziness (Robert William Service Poems)
Let laureates sing with rapturous swing Of the wonder and glory of work; Let pulpiteers preach and with passion impeach ...
Murderers (Robert William Service Poems)
He was my best and oldest friend. I'd known him all my life. And yet I'm sure towards the end ...