Cardiac (Robert William Service Poems)
A mattock high he swung; I watched him at his toil; With never gulp of lung He gashed the ruddy ...
A mattock high he swung; I watched him at his toil; With never gulp of lung He gashed the ruddy ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
I bought a young and lovely bride, Paying her father gold; Lamblike she rested by my side, As cold as ...
I look into the aching womb of night; I look across the mist that masks the dead; The moon is ...
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
When I went by the meadow gate The chestnut mare would trot to meet me, And as her coming I ...
Grimy men with picks and shovels Who in darkness sweat unseen, Climb from out your lousy hovels, Build a palace ...
The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee ...
The woes of men beyond my ken Mean nothing more to me. Behold my world, and Eden hurled From Heaven ...
This is the song of the parson's son, as he squats in his shack alone, On the wild, weird nights, ...
If fortune had not granted me To suck the Muse's teats, I think I would have liked to be A ...
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 took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie, Whenever, wherever or whatsoever the manner of death ...
I drink my fill of foamy ale I sing a song, I tell a tale, I play the fiddle; My ...
Worms finer for fishing you couldn't be wishing; I delved them dismayed from the velvety sod; The rich loam upturning ...
I never saw a face so bright With brilliant blood and joy, As was the grinning mug last night Of ...
When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay, I hope that it won't ...
There's sunshine in the heart of me, My blood sings in the breeze; The mountains are a part of me, ...
'A ticket for the lottery I've purchased every week,' said she 'For years a score Though desperately poor am I, ...
When Chewed-ear Jenkins got hitched up to Guinneyveer McGee, His flowin' locks, ye recollect, wuz frivolous an' free; But in ...
Bed and bread are all I need In my happy day; Love of Nature is my creed, Unto her I ...
I wonder if successful men Are always happy? And do they sing with gusto when Springtime is sappy? Although I ...
This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: "Send not your foolish and feeble; send ...
Should you preserve white mice in honey Don't use imported ones from China, For though they cost you less in ...
School yourself to savour most Joys that have but little cost; Prove the best of life is free, Sun and ...
I Let others sing of gold and gear, the joy of being rich; But oh, the days when I was ...
He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town, In moccasins and oily buckskin shirt. He's gaunt as ...
Ho! we were strong, we were swift, we were brave. Youth was a challenge, and Life was a fight. All ...
Toil's a tunnel, there's no way out For fellows, the like o' me; A beggar wi' only a crust an' ...
No man can be a failure if he thinks he's a success; he may not own his roof-tree overhead, He ...
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