Pooch (Robert William Service Poems)
Nurse, won't you let him in? He's barkin' an' scratchen' the door, Makin' so dreffel a din I jest can't ...
Nurse, won't you let him in? He's barkin' an' scratchen' the door, Makin' so dreffel a din I jest can't ...
The harridan who holds the inn At which I toss a pot, Is old and uglier than sin,-- I'm glad ...
One of the Down and Out--that's me. Stare at me well, ay, stare! Stare and shrink--say! you wouldn't think that ...
The Judge looked down, his face was grim, He scratched his ear; The gangster's moll looked up at him With ...
I was in Warsaw when the first bomb fell; I was in Warsaw when the Terror came - Havoc and ...
He gives me such a bold and curious look, That young American across the way, As if he'd like to ...
My glass is filled, my pipe is lit, My den is all a cosy glow; And snug before the fire ...
Hot digitty dog! Now, ain't it queer, I've been abroad for over a year; Seen a helluva lot since then, ...
Hark to the Sourdough story, told at sixty below, When the pipes are lit and we smoke and spit Into ...
"Gather around me, children dear; The wind is high and the night is cold; Closer, little ones, snuggle near; Let's ...
This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye, As I smoked my ...
When they shall close my careless eyes And look their last upon my face, I fear that some will say: ...
Through eyelet holes I watched the crowd Rain of confetti fling; Their joy is lush, their laughter loud, For Carnival ...
Oh, it's pleasant sitting here, Seeing all the people pass; You beside your bock of beer, I behind my demi-tasse. ...
"Carry your suitcase, Sir?" he said. I turned away to hide a grin, For he was shorter by a head ...
Three gentlemen live close beside me -- A painter of pictures bizarre, A poet whose virtues might guide me, A ...
"But it isn't playing the game," he said, And he slammed his books away; "The Latin and Greek I've got ...
Of course you've heard of the Nancy Lee, and how she sailed away On her famous quest of the Arctic ...
'Twas in a pub in Battersea They call the "Rose and Crown," Quite suddenly, it seemed to me, The Lord ...
I like to look at fishermen And oftentimes I wish One would be lucky now and then And catch a ...
Never knew Jim, did you? Our boy Jim? Bless you, there was the likely lad; Supple and straight and long ...
I saw three wounded of the war: And the first had lost his eyes; And the second went on wheels ...
I'm scared of it all, God's truth! so I am; It's too big and brutal for me. My nerve's on ...
The Princess was of ancient line, Of royal race was she; Like cameo her face was fine, With sad serentiy: ...
'Twas in a pub just off the Strand When I was in my cups, There passed a bloke with in ...
I will not wash my face; I will not brush my hair; I "pig" around the place-- There's nobody to ...
Blind Peter Piper used to play All up and down the city; I'd often meet him on my way, And ...
Only a Leather Medal, hanging there on the wall, Dingy and frayed and faded, dusty and worn and old; Yet ...
She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking The pinched economies of thirty years; And there the little shop ...
Now Fireman Flynn met Hank the Finn where lights of Lust-land glow; "Let's leave," says he, "the lousy sea, and ...
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