The Missal Makers (Robert William Service Poems)
To visit the Escurial We took a motor bus, And there a guide mercurial Took charge of us. He showed ...
To visit the Escurial We took a motor bus, And there a guide mercurial Took charge of us. He showed ...
All day he lay upon the sand When summer sun was bright, And let the grains sift through his hand ...
When from my fumbling hand the tired pen falls, And in the twilight weary droops my head; While to my ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
A Belgian Priest-Soldier Speaks; GURR! You cochon! Stand and fight! Show your mettle! Snarl and bite! Spawn of an accursed ...
In London City I evade For charming Burlington Arcade - For thee in youth I met a maid By name ...
Said the Door: "She came in With no shadow of sin; Turned the key in the lock, Slipped out of ...
Now Eddie Malone got a swell grammyfone to draw all the trade to his store; An' sez he: "Come along ...
What would I choose to see when I To this bright earth shall bid good-bye? When fades forever from my ...
Three times I had the lust to kill, To clutch a throat so young and fair, And squeeze with all ...
I haled me a woman from the street, Shameless, but, oh, so fair! I bade her sit in the model's ...
I'm sitting by the fire tonight, The cat purrs on the rug; The room's abrim with rosy light, Suavely soft ...
Jenny was my first sweetheart; Poor lass! she was none too smart. Though I swore she'd never rue it, She ...
Now Fireman Flynn met Hank the Finn where lights of Lust-land glow; "Let's leave," says he, "the lousy sea, and ...
Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank That's staked out nigh three hundred claims, and every ...
I knew three sisters,--all were sweet; Wishful to wed was I, And wondered which would mostly meet The matrimonial tie. ...
I have a house I've lived in long: I can't recall my going in. 'Twere better bartered for a song ...
Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools. Gold! We wheeled in the furrow, fired with ...
The Spirit of the Unborn Babe peered through the window-pane, Peered through the window-pane that glowed like beacon in the ...
Oh Julie Claire was very fair, Yet generous as well, And many a lad of metal had A saucy tale ...
Beyond the Rocking Bridge it lies, the burg of evil fame, The huts where hive and swarm and thrive the ...
In city shop a hat I saw That to my fancy seemed to strike, I gave my wage to buy ...
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day, With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round, I did my decent ...
You've heard of Julot the apache, and Gigolette, his mome. . . . Montmartre was their hunting-ground, but Belville was ...
Where are the dames I used to know In Dawson in the days of yore? Alas, it's fifty years ago, ...
Me and Ed and a stretcher Out on the nootral ground. (If there's one dead corpse, I'll betcher There's a ...
I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat, And one was small and crapulous, and one was ...
'Ave you seen Bill's mug in the Noos to-day? 'E's gyned the Victoriar Cross, they say; Little Bill wot would ...
Only a Leather Medal, hanging there on the wall, Dingy and frayed and faded, dusty and worn and old; Yet ...
Twin boys I bore, my joy, my care, My hope, my life they were to me; Their father, dashing, debonair, ...
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