Eyrie (Robert William Service Poems)
The little pink house is high on the hill And my heart is not what it used to be; It ...
The little pink house is high on the hill And my heart is not what it used to be; It ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
My lead dog Mike was like a bear; I reckon he was grizzly bred, For when he reared up in ...
In the moonless, misty night, with my little pipe alight, I am sitting by the camp-fire's fading cheer; Oh, the ...
They thought I'd be a champion; They boasted loud of me. A dozen victories I'd won, The Press was proud ...
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day, With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round, I did my decent ...
To Dawson Town came Percy Brown from London on the Thames. A pane of glass was in his eye, and ...
If you're up against a bruiser and you're getting knocked about -- Grin. If you're feeling pretty groggy, and you're ...
Oh, it's pleasant sitting here, Seeing all the people pass; You beside your bock of beer, I behind my demi-tasse. ...
Three times I had the lust to kill, To clutch a throat so young and fair, And squeeze with all ...
Italian people peaceful are,-- Let it be to their credit. They mostly fail to win a war, --Oh they themselves ...
If she met him or he met her, I knew that something must occur; For they were just like flint ...
Her little head just topped the window-sill; She even mounted on a stool, maybe; She pressed against the pane, as ...
Be honest, kindly, simple, true; Seek good in all, scorn but pretence; Whatever sorrow come to you, Believe in Life's ...
The sky is like an envelope, One of those blue official things; And, sealing it, to mock our hope, The ...
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
Out of the night a crash, A roar, a rampart of light; A flame that leaped like a lash, Searing ...
He used to say: There ain't a doubt Misfortune is a bitter pill, But if you only pry it out ...
I watched one day a parrot grey - 'twas in a barber shop. "Cuckold!" he cried, until I sighed: "You ...
I Let others sing of gold and gear, the joy of being rich; But oh, the days when I was ...
Twin boys I bore, my joy, my care, My hope, my life they were to me; Their father, dashing, debonair, ...
I am a stout materialist; With abstract terms I can't agree, And so I've made a little list Of words ...
Upspoke the culprit at the bar, Conducting his own case: 'Your Lordship, I have gone to far, But grant me ...
It's easy to fight when everything's right, And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer ...
Three Triangles TRIANGLE ONE My husband put some poison in my beer, And fondly hoped that I would drink it ...
Courage mes gars: La guerre est proche. I plant my little plot of beans, I sit beneath my cyprus tree; ...
I pawned my sick wife's wedding ring, To drink and make myself a beast. I got the most that it ...
Smith, great writer of stories, drank; found it immortalized his pen; Fused in his brain-pan, else a blank, heavens of ...
Although the Preacher be a bore, The Atheist is even more. I ain't religious worth a damn; My views are ...
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