No Lilies For Lisette (Robert William Service Poems)
Said the Door: "She came in With no shadow of sin; Turned the key in the lock, Slipped out of ...
Said the Door: "She came in With no shadow of sin; Turned the key in the lock, Slipped out of ...
I look into the aching womb of night; I look across the mist that masks the dead; The moon is ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
This is the song of the parson's son, as he squats in his shack alone, On the wild, weird nights, ...
In a strange town in a far land They met amid a throng; They stared, they could not understand How ...
As I go forth from fair to mart With racket ringing, Who would divine that in my heart Mad larks ...
Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank That's staked out nigh three hundred claims, and every ...
The waves have a story to tell me, As I lie on the lonely beach; Chanting aloft in the pine-tops, ...
"Black is the sky, but the land is white-- (O the wind, the snow and the storm!)-- Father, where is ...
I The Moon is like a ping-pong ball; I lean against the orchard wall, And see it soar into the ...
An angel was tired of heaven, as he lounged in the golden street; His halo was tilted sideways, and his ...
In stilly grove beside the sea He mingles colours, measures space; A bronze and breezy man is he, Yet peace ...
He took the grade in second - quite a climb, Dizzy and dangerous, yet how sublime! The road went up ...
Hark to the Sourdough story, told at sixty below, When the pipes are lit and we smoke and spit Into ...
The same old sprint in the morning, boys, to the same old din and smut; Chained all day to the ...
The Junior God looked from his place In the conning towers of heaven, And he saw the world through the ...
Give me the scorn of the stars and a peak defiant; Wail of the pines and a wind with the ...
Heed me, feed me, I am hungry, I am red-tongued with desire; Boughs of balsam, slabs of cedar, gummy fagots ...
There's a cry from out the loneliness -- oh, listen, Honey, listen! Do you hear it, do you fear it, ...
Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools. Gold! We wheeled in the furrow, fired with ...
Heigh ho! to sleep I vainly try; Since twelve I haven't closed an eye, And now it's three, and as ...
Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on, Set pieces and drop-curtain scenes galore, Big ...
In the dark and damp of the alley cold, Lay the Christmas tree that hadn't been sold; By a shopman ...
The humble garret where I dwell Is in that Quarter called the Latin; It isn't spacious -- truth to tell, ...
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