The Ballad Of Blasphemous Bill (Robert William Service Poems)
I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie, Whenever, wherever or whatsoever the manner of death ...
I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie, Whenever, wherever or whatsoever the manner of death ...
I wanted the gold, and I sought it, I scrabbled and mucked like a slave. Was it famine or scurvy ...
Only a Leather Medal, hanging there on the wall, Dingy and frayed and faded, dusty and worn and old; Yet ...
She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking The pinched economies of thirty years; And there the little shop ...
My garden robin in the Spring Was rapturous with glee, And followed me with wistful wing From pear to apple ...
Gold! We leapt from our benches. Gold! We sprang from our stools. Gold! We wheeled in the furrow, fired with ...
Light up your pipe again, old chum, and sit awhile with me; I've got to watch the bannock bake -- ...
Today I opened wide my eyes, And stared with wonder and surprise, To see beneath November skies An apple blossom ...
The meal was o'er, the lamp was lit, The family sat in its glow; The Mother never ceased to knit, ...
Cinderella in the street In a ragged gown, Sloven slippers on her feet, Shames our tidy town; Harsh her locks ...
Why should I be the first to fall Of all the leaves on this old tree? Though sadly soon I ...
He hurried away, young heart of joy, under our Devon sky! And I watched him go, my beautiful boy, and ...
I Flat as a drum-head stretch the haggard snows; The mighty skies are palisades of light; The stars are blurred; ...
I think I'll buy a little field, Though scant am I of pelf, And hold the hope that it may ...
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