Old Trouper (Robert William Service Poems)
I was Mojeska's leading man And famous parts I used to play, But now I do the best I can ...
I was Mojeska's leading man And famous parts I used to play, But now I do the best I can ...
In idle dream with pipe in hand I looked across the Square, And saw the little chapel stand In eloquent ...
Folk ask if I'm alive, Most think I'm not; Yet gaily I contrive To till my plot. The world its ...
O Sacred Muse, my lyre excuse! - My verse is vagrant singing; Rhyme I invoke for simple folk Of penny-wise ...
The porter in the Pullman car Was charming, as they sometimes are. He scanned my baggage tags: "Are you The ...
Mother focused with a frown The part of me where I sit down. Said she: "Your pants are wearing through; ...
Don't cheer, damn you! Don't cheer! Silence! Your bitterest tear Is fulsomely sweet to-day. . . . Down on your ...
When day is done I steal away To fold my hands in rest, And of my hours this moment grey ...
Said he: "I'll dive deep in the Past, And write a book of direful days When summer skies were overcast ...
That Tom was poor was sure a pity, Such guts for learning had the lad; He took to Greek like ...
(With apologies to the singer of the "Song of the Banjo".) I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone; ...
I watched one day a parrot grey - 'twas in a barber shop. "Cuckold!" he cried, until I sighed: "You ...
You ask me what I call Success - It is, I wonder, Happiness? It is not wealth, it is not ...
My Muse is simple,--yet it's nice To think you don't need to think twice On words I write. I reckon ...
I've made my Will. I don't believe In luxury and wealth; And to those loving ones who grieve My age ...
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