Over The Parapet (Robert William Service Poems)
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
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 ...
Till midnight her needle she plied To finish her pretty pink dress; "Oh, bless you, my darling," she sighed; "I ...
Day after day behold me plying My pen within an office drear; The dullest dog, till homeward hieing, Then lo! ...
When Jack took Nell into his arms He knew he acted ill, And thought as he enjoyed her charms Of ...
Her smile ineffably is sweet, Devinely she is slim; Yet oh how weary are her feet, How aches her every ...
Clorinda met me on the way As I came from the train; Her face was anything but gay, In fact, ...
For supper we had curried tripe. I washed the dishes, wound the clock; Then for awhile I smoked my pipe ...
When I was brash and gallant-gay Just fifty years ago, I hit the ties and beat my way From Maine ...
My daughter Susie, aged two, Apes me in every way, For as my household chores I do With brooms she ...
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day, With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round, I did my decent ...
Jenny was my first sweetheart; Poor lass! she was none too smart. Though I swore she'd never rue it, She ...
When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay, I hope that it won't ...
Within a pub that's off the Strand and handy to the bar, With pipe in mouth and mug in hand ...
Some carol of the banjo, to its measure keeping time; Of viol or of lute some make a song. My ...
Me and Ed and a stretcher Out on the nootral ground. (If there's one dead corpse, I'll betcher There's a ...
He took the grade in second - quite a climb, Dizzy and dangerous, yet how sublime! The road went up ...
My Louis loved me oh so well And spiered me for his wife; He would have haled me from the ...
In Paris on a morn of May I sent a radio transalantic To catch a steamer on the way, But ...
Oh ye whose hearts are resonant, and ring to War's romance, Hear ye the story of a boy, a peasant ...
She was a Philistine spick and span, He was a bold Bohemian. She had the mode, and the last at ...
Oh, it's pleasant sitting here, Seeing all the people pass; You beside your bock of beer, I behind my demi-tasse. ...
"Sow your wild oats in your youth," so we're always told; But I say with deeper sooth: "Sow them when ...
Said darling daughter unto me: "oh Dad, how funny it would be If you had gone to Mexico A score ...
Ye who know the Lone Trail fain would follow it, Though it lead to glory or the darkness of the ...
The same old sprint in the morning, boys, to the same old din and smut; Chained all day to the ...
He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town, In moccasins and oily buckskin shirt. He's gaunt as ...
Cinderella in the street In a ragged gown, Sloven slippers on her feet, Shames our tidy town; Harsh her locks ...
She I'm waiting for the man I hope to wed. I've never seen him - that's the funny part. I ...
"Young fellow, listen to a friend: Beware of wedlock - 'tis a gamble, It's MAN who holds the losing end ...
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