Orphan School (Robert William Service Poems)
Full fifty merry maids I heard One summer morn a-singing; And each was like a joyous bird With spring-clear not ...
Full fifty merry maids I heard One summer morn a-singing; And each was like a joyous bird With spring-clear not ...
My Lady is dancing so lightly, The belle of the Embassy Ball; I lied as I kissed her politely, And ...
I used to think a pot of ink Held magic in its fluid, And I would ply a pen when ...
Now Eddie Malone got a swell grammyfone to draw all the trade to his store; An' sez he: "Come along ...
There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years ...
He stared at me with sad, hurt eyes, That drab, untidy man; And though my clients I despise I do ...
My lead dog Mike was like a bear; I reckon he was grizzly bred, For when he reared up in ...
A Frenchman and an Englishman Resolved to fight a duel, And hit upon a savage plan, Because their hate was ...
We bore him to his boneyard lot One afternoon at three; The clergyman was on the spot To earn his ...
To visit the Escurial We took a motor bus, And there a guide mercurial Took charge of us. He showed ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
The Greatest Writer of to-day (With Maupassant I almost set him) Said to me in a weary way, The last ...
A mattock high he swung; I watched him at his toil; With never gulp of lung He gashed the ruddy ...
He had the grocer's counter-stoop, That little man so grey and neat; His moustache had a doleful droop, He hailed ...
One day the Great Designer sought His Clerk of Birth and Death. Said he: "Two souls are in my thought, ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
'Why did the lady in the lift Slap that poor parson's face?' Said Mother, thinking as she sniffed, Of clerical ...
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
Before the florid portico I watched the gamblers come and go, While by me on a bench there sat A ...
In London City I evade For charming Burlington Arcade - For thee in youth I met a maid By name ...
I told a truth, a tragic truth That tore the sullen sky; A million shuddered at my sooth And anarchist ...
Two men I saw reel from a bar And stumble down the street; Coarse and uncouth as workmen are, They ...
A sea-gull with a broken wing, I found upon the kelp-strewn shore. It sprawled and gasped; I sighed: "Poor thing! ...
He was an old prospector with a vision bleared and dim. He asked me for a grubstake, and the same ...
You've heard of "Casey at The Bat," And "Casey's Tabble Dote"; But now it's time To write a rhyme Of ...
Bill has left his house of clay, Slammed the door and gone away: How he laughed but yesterday! I had ...
I'm part of people I have known And they are part of me; The seeds of thought that I have ...
I'm one of these haphazard chaps Who sit in cafes drinking; A most improper taste, perhaps, Yet pleasant, to my ...
"If you repent," the Parson said," Your sins will be forgiven. Aye, even on your dying bed You're not too ...
This is the yarn he told me As we sat in Casey's Bar, That Rooshun mug who scammed from the ...
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