O Lovely Lie (Robert William Service Poems)
I told a truth, a tragic truth That tore the sullen sky; A million shuddered at my sooth And anarchist ...
I told a truth, a tragic truth That tore the sullen sky; A million shuddered at my sooth And anarchist ...
Oh, it is good to drink and sup, And then beside the kindly fire To smoke and heap the faggots ...
Beyond the Rocking Bridge it lies, the burg of evil fame, The huts where hive and swarm and thrive the ...
Rosemary has of dolls a dozen, Yet she disdains them all; While Marie Rose, her pauper cousin Has just an ...
An Englishman was Thomas Paine Who bled for liberty; But while his fight was far from vain He died in ...
Her baby was so full of glee, And through the day It laughed and babbled on her knee In happy ...
The English and the French were met Upon the field of future battle; The foes were formidably set And waiting ...
'Twas in the bleary middle of the hard-boiled Arctic night, I was lonesome as a loon, so if you can, ...
Oh Lip-Stick Liz was in the biz, That's the oldest known in history; She had a lot of fancy rags, ...
I know a garden where the lilies gleam, And one who lingers in the sunshine there; She is than white-stoled ...
Birds have no consciousness of doom: Yon thrush that serenades me daily From scented snow of hawthorn bloom Would not ...
She risked her all, they told me, bravely sinking The pinched economies of thirty years; And there the little shop ...
Pines against the sky, Pluming the purple hill; Pines . . . and I wonder why, Heart, you quicken and ...
I love the cheery bustle Of children round the house, The tidy maids a-hustle, The chatter of my spouse; The ...
You never saw a cat with wings, I'll bet a dollar -- well, I did; 'Twas one of those fantastic ...
I was in Warsaw when the first bomb fell; I was in Warsaw when the Terror came - Havoc and ...
That boy I took in the car last night, With the body that awfully sagged away, And the lips blood-crisped, ...
Say! You've struck a heap of trouble -- Bust in business, lost your wife; No one cares a cent about ...
I'm crawlin' out in the mangolds to bury wot's left o' Joe -- Joe, my pal, and a good un ...
Behold! I'm old; my hair is white; My eighty years are in the offing, And sitting by the fire to-night ...
"The North has got him." --Yukonism. I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did. I ...
Where once with lads I scoffed my beer The landlord's lass I've wed. Now I am lord and master here;-- ...
Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them, Singing all together with their throats bronze-bare; ...
(The Dark Side) My mind goes back to Fumin Wood, and how we stuck it out, Eight days of hunger, ...
I own a gorgeous Cadillac, A chauffeur garbed in blue; And as I sit behind his back His beefy neck ...
We brought him in from between the lines: we'd better have let him lie; For what's the use of risking ...
Being a gaoler I'm supposed To be a hard-boiled guy; Yet never prison walls enclosed A kinder soul than I: ...
Poppies, you try to tell me, glowing there in the wheat; Poppies! Ah no! You mock me: It's blood, I ...
Oh happy he who cannot see With scientific eyes; Who does not know how flowers grow, And is not planet ...
I am a stout materialist; With abstract terms I can't agree, And so I've made a little list Of words ...
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