The Atavist (Robert William Service Poems)
What are you doing here, Tom Thorne, on the white top-knot o' the world, Where the wind has the cut ...
What are you doing here, Tom Thorne, on the white top-knot o' the world, Where the wind has the cut ...
"You're bloody right - I was a Red," The Man from Cook's morosely said. And if our chaps had won ...
One day the Great Designer sought His Clerk of Birth and Death. Said he: "Two souls are in my thought, ...
We have no heart for civil strife, Our burdens we prefer to bear; We long to live a peaceful life ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
Before the florid portico I watched the gamblers come and go, While by me on a bench there sat A ...
There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years ...
Missis Moriarty called last week, and says she to me, says she: "Sure the heart of me's broken entirely now ...
This is the pay-day up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down; There's money to burn in the ...
I sing no idle songs of dalliance days, No dreams Elysian inspire my rhyming; I have no Celia to enchant ...
I never kill a fly because I think that what we have of laws To regulate and civilize Our daily ...
"Tell Annie I'll be home in time To help her with her Christmas-tree." That's what he wrote, and hark! the ...
The cruel war was over -- oh, the triumph was so sweet! We watched the troops returning, through our tears; ...
Ho! we were strong, we were swift, we were brave. Youth was a challenge, and Life was a fight. All ...
Each New Year's Eve I used to brood On my misdoings of the past, And vowed: "This year I'll be ...
In all the pubs from Troon to Ayr Grandfather's father would repair With Bobby Burns, a drouthy pair, The glass ...
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
Ma tried to wash her garden slacks but couldn't get 'em clean And so she thought she'd soak 'em in ...
Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them, Singing all together with their throats bronze-bare; ...
"And when I come to die," he said, "Ye shall not lay me out in state, Nor leave your laurels ...
(The Dark Side) My mind goes back to Fumin Wood, and how we stuck it out, Eight days of hunger, ...
Time, the Jester, jeers at you; Your life's a fleeting breath; Your birthday's flimsy I.O.U. To that old devil, Death. ...
The red-roofed house of dream design Looks three ways on the sea; For fifty years I've made it mine, And ...
Mumsie and Dad are raven dark And I am lily blonde. ''Tis strange,' I once heard nurse remark, 'You do ...
My Louis loved me oh so well And spiered me for his wife; He would have haled me from the ...
Of course you've heard of the Nancy Lee, and how she sailed away On her famous quest of the Arctic ...
"I'm going, Billy, old fellow. Hist, lad! Don't make any noise. There's Boches to beat all creation, the pitch of ...
The Princess was of ancient line, Of royal race was she; Like cameo her face was fine, With sad serentiy: ...
God dwells in you; in pride and shame, In all you do to blight or bless; In all you are ...
Have ever you heard of the Land of Beyond, That dreams at the gates of the day? Alluring it lies ...
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