The Soldier Of Fortune (Robert William Service Poems)
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
In a strange town in a far land They met amid a throng; They stared, they could not understand How ...
Full fifty merry maids I heard One summer morn a-singing; And each was like a joyous bird With spring-clear not ...
His frown brought terror to his foes, But now in twilight of his days The pure perfection of a rose ...
Because my teeth are feebly few I cannot bolt my grub like you, But have to chew and chew and ...
Three score and ten, the psalmist saith, And half my course is well-nigh run; I've had my flout at dusty ...
Now Eddie Malone got a swell grammyfone to draw all the trade to his store; An' sez he: "Come along ...
Jack would laugh an' joke all day; Never saw a lad so gay; Singin' like a medder lark, Loaded to ...
He stared at me with sad, hurt eyes, That drab, untidy man; And though my clients I despise I do ...
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
I Let others sing of Empire and of pomp beyond the sea, A song of Little Puddleton is good enough ...
Alas! I see that thrushes three Are ravishing my old fig tree, In whose green shade I smoked my pipe ...
In idle dream with pipe in hand I looked across the Square, And saw the little chapel stand In eloquent ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
While for me gapes the greedy grave It don't make sense That I should have a crazy crave To paint ...
Aye, Montecelli, that's the name. You may have heard of him perhaps. Yet though he never savoured fame, Of those ...
For oh, when the war will be over We'll go and we'll look for our dead; We'll go when the ...
A Belgian Priest-Soldier Speaks; GURR! You cochon! Stand and fight! Show your mettle! Snarl and bite! Spawn of an accursed ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day, With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round, I did my decent ...
A wild and woeful race he ran Of lust and sin by land and sea; Until, abhorred of God and ...
When day is done I steal away To fold my hands in rest, And of my hours this moment grey ...
Three gentlemen live close beside me -- A painter of pictures bizarre, A poet whose virtues might guide me, A ...
Because I have no garden and No pence to buy, Before the flower shop I stand And sigh. The beauty ...
Oh, have you forgotten those afternoons With riot of roses and amber skies, When we thrilled to the joy of ...
I sing no idle songs of dalliance days, No dreams Elysian inspire my rhyming; I have no Celia to enchant ...
Never knew Jim, did you? Our boy Jim? Bless you, there was the likely lad; Supple and straight and long ...
The General now lives in town; He's eighty odd, they say; You'll see him strolling up and down The Prada ...
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