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 ...
We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure, Of men who played the game and lost or won; Of mad ...
The Greatest Writer of to-day (With Maupassant I almost set him) Said to me in a weary way, The last ...
Pines against the sky, Pluming the purple hill; Pines . . . and I wonder why, Heart, you quicken and ...
Day after day behold me plying My pen within an office drear; The dullest dog, till homeward hieing, Then lo! ...
Men of the High North, the wild sky is blazing; Islands of opal float on silver seas; Swift splendors kindle, ...
Between the mountain and the sea I've made a happy landing; And here a peace has come to me That ...
There's a four-pronged buck a-swinging in the shadow of my cabin, And it roamed the velvet valley till to-day; But ...
Heed me, feed me, I am hungry, I am red-tongued with desire; Boughs of balsam, slabs of cedar, gummy fagots ...
There's a cry from out the loneliness -- oh, listen, Honey, listen! Do you hear it, do you fear it, ...
We'd left the sea-gulls long behind, And we were almost in mid-ocean; The sky was soft and blue and kind, ...
As I go forth from fair to mart With racket ringing, Who would divine that in my heart Mad larks ...
Oh the wife she tried to tell me that 'twas nothing but the thrumming Of a wood-pecker a-rapping on the ...
"Black is the sky, but the land is white-- (O the wind, the snow and the storm!)-- Father, where is ...
I The Moon is like a ping-pong ball; I lean against the orchard wall, And see it soar into the ...
I wanted the gold, and I sought it, I scrabbled and mucked like a slave. Was it famine or scurvy ...
This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: "Send not your foolish and feeble; send ...
Mud is Beauty in the making, Mud is melody awaking; Laughter, leafy whisperings, Butterflies with rainbow wings; Baby babble, lover's ...
Out of the wood my White Knight came: His eyes were bright with a bitter flame, As I clung to ...
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