The Return (Robert William Service Poems)
They turned him loose; he bowed his head, A felon, bent and grey. His face was even as the Dead, ...
They turned him loose; he bowed his head, A felon, bent and grey. His face was even as the Dead, ...
I've wearied of so many things Adored in youthful days; Music no more my spirit wings, E'en when Master play. ...
There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years ...
What would I choose to see when I To this bright earth shall bid good-bye? When fades forever from my ...
He was a traveling tinker lad And I was a gypsy jade, Yet never were two so gay and glad, ...
The clover was in blossom, an' the year was at the June, When Flap-jack Billy hit the town, likewise O'Flynn's ...
The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee ...
To visit the Escurial We took a motor bus, And there a guide mercurial Took charge of us. He showed ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
Because I was a wonton wild And welcomed many a lover, Who is the father of my child I wish ...
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 ...
Past ash cans and alley cats, Fetid. overflowing gutters, Leprous lines of rancid flats Where the frowsy linen flutters; With ...
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
I am the Cannon King, behold! I perish on a throne of gold. With forest far and turret high, Renowned ...
This is the pay-day up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down; There's money to burn in the ...
For oh, when the war will be over We'll go and we'll look for our dead; We'll go when the ...
The Countess sprawled beside the sea As naked a she well could be; Indeed her only garments were A "G" ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
Beyond the Rocking Bridge it lies, the burg of evil fame, The huts where hive and swarm and thrive the ...
To-day within a grog-shop near I saw a newly captured linnet, Who beat against his cage in fear, And fell ...
Between the mountain and the sea I've made a happy landing; And here a peace has come to me That ...
A father's pride I used to know, A mother's love was mine; For swinish husks I let them go, And ...
Tell me, Tramp, where I may go To be free from human woe; Say where I may hope to find ...
Should you preserve white mice in honey Don't use imported ones from China, For though they cost you less in ...
Her little head just topped the window-sill; She even mounted on a stool, maybe; She pressed against the pane, as ...
Light up your pipe again, old chum, and sit awhile with me; I've got to watch the bannock bake -- ...
I don't know how the fishes feel, but I can't help thinking it odd, That a gay young flapper of ...
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