If You Had The Choice Of Two Women To Wed (Robert William Service Poems)
If you had the choice of two women to wed,(Though of course the idea is quite absurd)And the first from ...
If you had the choice of two women to wed,(Though of course the idea is quite absurd)And the first from ...
Past ash cans and alley cats, Fetid. overflowing gutters, Leprous lines of rancid flats Where the frowsy linen flutters; With ...
We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure, Of men who played the game and lost or won; Of mad ...
He stared at me with sad, hurt eyes, That drab, untidy man; And though my clients I despise I do ...
O'er the dark pines she sees the silver moon, And in the west, all tremulous, a star; And soothing sweet ...
In the moonless, misty night, with my little pipe alight, I am sitting by the camp-fire's fading cheer; Oh, the ...
The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee ...
All day he lay upon the sand When summer sun was bright, And let the grains sift through his hand ...
Oh how it would enable me To titillate my vanity If you should choose to label me A Poet of ...
Oh I am neither rich nor poor, No worker I dispoil; Yet I am glad to be secure From servitude ...
Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank That's staked out nigh three hundred claims, and every ...
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
Here is this vale of sweet abiding, My ultimate and dulcet home, That gently dreams above the chiding of restless ...
Oh Julie Claire was very fair, Yet generous as well, And many a lad of metal had A saucy tale ...
Time, the Jester, jeers at you; Your life's a fleeting breath; Your birthday's flimsy I.O.U. To that old devil, Death. ...
I drink my fill of foamy ale I sing a song, I tell a tale, I play the fiddle; My ...
What was the blackest sight to me Of all that campaign? A naked woman tied to a tree With jagged ...
From off my calendar today A leaf I tear; So swiftly passes smiling May Without a care. And now the ...
I'm dead. Officially I'm dead. Their hope is past. How long I stood as missing! Now, at last I'm dead. ...
"The aristocratic ne'er-do-well in Canada frequently finds his way into the ranks of the Royal North-West Mounted Police." -- Extract. ...
Oh, have you forgotten those afternoons With riot of roses and amber skies, When we thrilled to the joy of ...
As nothingness draws near How I can see Inexorably clear My vanity. My sum of worthiness Always so small, Dwindles ...
Said darling daughter unto me: "oh Dad, how funny it would be If you had gone to Mexico A score ...
A-sitttin' on a cracker box an' spittin' in the stove, I took a sudden notion that I'd kindo' like to ...
Brave Thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one, And bounded up five flights of stairs, a gallant garreteer; ...
We're taking Marie Toro to her home in Père-La-Chaise; We're taking Marie Toro to her last resting-place. Behold! her hearse ...
Said he: "I'll dive deep in the Past, And write a book of direful days When summer skies were overcast ...
In youth I longed to paint The loveliness I saw; And yet by dire constraint I had to study Law. ...
Each New Year's Eve I used to brood On my misdoings of the past, And vowed: "This year I'll be ...
When looking back I dimly see The trails my feet have trod, Some hand divine, it seems to me, Has ...
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