Spanish Peasant (Robert William Service Poems)
We have no aspiration vain For paradise Utopian, And here in our sun-happy Spain, Though man exploit his fellow man, ...
We have no aspiration vain For paradise Utopian, And here in our sun-happy Spain, Though man exploit his fellow man, ...
The night before I left Milan A mob jammed the Cathedral Square, And high the tide of passion ran As ...
An Englishman was Thomas Paine Who bled for liberty; But while his fight was far from vain He died in ...
They told to Marie Antoinette: "The beggers at your gate Have eyes too sad for tears to wet, And for ...
Bed and bread are all I need In my happy day; Love of Nature is my creed, Unto her I ...
I wanted the gold, and I sought it, I scrabbled and mucked like a slave. Was it famine or scurvy ...
To-day within a grog-shop near I saw a newly captured linnet, Who beat against his cage in fear, And fell ...
On silver sand where ripples curled I counted sea-gulls seven; Shy, secret screened from all the world, And innocent as ...
Men of the High North, the wild sky is blazing; Islands of opal float on silver seas; Swift splendors kindle, ...
Oh how I'd be gay and glad If a little house I had, Snuggled in a shady lot, With behind ...
There's sunshine in the heart of me, My blood sings in the breeze; The mountains are a part of me, ...
I Let others sing of gold and gear, the joy of being rich; But oh, the days when I was ...
When I was brash and gallant-gay Just fifty years ago, I hit the ties and beat my way From Maine ...
The Elders of the Tribe were grouped And squatted in the Council Cave; They seemed to be extremely pooped, And ...
My neighbour has a field of wheat And I a rood of vine; And he will give me bread to ...
What are we fighting for, We fellows who go to war? fighting for Freedom's sake! (You give me the belly-ache.) ...
A passion to be free Has ever mastered me; To none beneath the sun Will I bow down,--not one Shall ...
O meadow lark, so wild and free, It cannot be, it cannot be, That men to merchandise your spell Do ...
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