The Release (Robert William Service Poems)
To-day within a grog-shop near I saw a newly captured linnet, Who beat against his cage in fear, And fell ...
To-day within a grog-shop near I saw a newly captured linnet, Who beat against his cage in fear, And fell ...
Say! You've struck a heap of trouble -- Bust in business, lost your wife; No one cares a cent about ...
Because I have ten thousand pounds I sit upon my stern, And leave my living tranquilly for other folks to ...
I drink my fill of foamy ale I sing a song, I tell a tale, I play the fiddle; My ...
And is it not a gesture grand To drink oneself to death? Oh sure 'tis I can understand, Being of ...
Striving is life, yet life is striving; I fight to live, yet live to fight; The vital urge is in ...
Pines against the sky, Pluming the purple hill; Pines . . . and I wonder why, Heart, you quicken and ...
I sing no idle songs of dalliance days, No dreams Elysian inspire my rhyming; I have no Celia to enchant ...
Within a pub that's off the Strand and handy to the bar, With pipe in mouth and mug in hand ...
My only medals are the scars I've won in weary, peacetime wars, A-fighting for my little brood, To win them ...
The Spirit of the Unborn Babe peered through the window-pane, Peered through the window-pane that glowed like beacon in the ...
If on water and sweet bread Seven years I'll add to life, For me will no blood be shed, No ...
Full well I trow that when I die Down drops the curtain; Another show is all my eye And Betty ...
Sky's a-waxin' grey, Got to be a-goin'; Gittin' on my way, Where? I ain't a-knowin'. Fellers, no more jokes, Fun ...
I'm one of these haphazard chaps Who sit in cafes drinking; A most improper taste, perhaps, Yet pleasant, to my ...
'Ave you seen Bill's mug in the Noos to-day? 'E's gyned the Victoriar Cross, they say; Little Bill wot would ...
I stood beside the silken rope, Five dollars in my hand, And waited in my patient hope To sit anear ...
My mother she had children five and four are dead and gone; While I, least worthy to survive, persist in ...
Old Man Death's a lousy heel who will not play the game: Let Graveyard yawn and doom down crash, he'll ...
"There's something in your face, Michael, I've seen it all the day; There's something quare that wasn't there when first ...
(16th January 1949) I thank whatever gods may be For all the happiness that's mine; That I am festive, fit ...
She I'm waiting for the man I hope to wed. I've never seen him - that's the funny part. I ...
Smith, great writer of stories, drank; found it immortalized his pen; Fused in his brain-pan, else a blank, heavens of ...
The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; The Wanderlust ...
My first I wed when just sixteen And he was sixty-five. He treated me like any queen The years he ...
It's good the great green earth to roam, Where sights of awe the soul inspire; But oh, it's best, the ...
He's yonder, on the terrace of the Cafe de la Paix, The little wizened Spanish man, I see him every ...
The leaves are falling one and one, Each like a life to me, As over-soonly in the sun They spiral ...
Wars have been and wars will be Till the human race is run; Battles red by land and sea, Never ...
I count each day a little life, With birth and death complete; I cloister it from care and strife And ...
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