The Quest (Robert William Service Poems)
I sought Him on the purple seas, I sought Him on the peaks aflame; Amid the gloom of giant trees ...
I sought Him on the purple seas, I sought Him on the peaks aflame; Amid the gloom of giant trees ...
Said he: "You saw the Master clear; By Rushy Pond alone he sat, Serene and silent as a seer, in ...
The porter in the Pullman car Was charming, as they sometimes are. He scanned my baggage tags: "Are you The ...
They told to Marie Antoinette: "The beggers at your gate Have eyes too sad for tears to wet, And for ...
Striving is life, yet life is striving; I fight to live, yet live to fight; The vital urge is in ...
Oh how I love the laughing sea, Sun lances splintering; Or with a virile harmony In salty caves to sing; ...
I hate my neighbour Widow Green; I'd like to claw her face; But if I did she'd make a scene ...
Two men I saw reel from a bar And stumble down the street; Coarse and uncouth as workmen are, They ...
(The Wounded Canadian Speaks) My leg? It's off at the knee. Do I miss it? Well, some. You see I've ...
Oh, it's pleasant sitting here, Seeing all the people pass; You beside your bock of beer, I behind my demi-tasse. ...
Should you preserve white mice in honey Don't use imported ones from China, For though they cost you less in ...
I'm just a mediocre man Of no high-brow pretence; A comfortable life I plan With care and commonsense. I do ...
I bought a cuckoo clock And glad was I To hear its tick and tock, Its dulcet cry. But Jones, ...
Day after day behold me plying My pen within an office drear; The dullest dog, till homeward hieing, Then lo! ...
Unpenitent, I grieve to state, Two good men stood by heaven's gate, Saint Peter coming to await. The stopped the ...
If on isle of the sea I have to tarry, With one book, let it be A Dictionary. For though ...
Sky's a-waxin' grey, Got to be a-goin'; Gittin' on my way, Where? I ain't a-knowin'. Fellers, no more jokes, Fun ...
My daughter Susie, aged two, Apes me in every way, For as my household chores I do With brooms she ...
The sky is like an envelope, One of those blue official things; And, sealing it, to mock our hope, The ...
The cruel war was over -- oh, the triumph was so sweet! We watched the troops returning, through our tears; ...
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
(With apologies to the singer of the "Song of the Banjo".) I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone; ...
Never knew Jim, did you? Our boy Jim? Bless you, there was the likely lad; Supple and straight and long ...
I thought I would go daft when Joey died. He was my first, and wise beyond his years. For nigh ...
Twin boys I bore, my joy, my care, My hope, my life they were to me; Their father, dashing, debonair, ...
I strolled up old Bonanza, where I staked in ninety-eight, A-purpose to revisit the old claim. I kept thinking mighty ...
Folk ask if I'm alive, Most think I'm not; Yet gaily I contrive To till my plot. The world its ...
My glass is filled, my pipe is lit, My den is all a cosy glow; And snug before the fire ...
There will be a singing in your heart, There will be a rapture in your eyes; You will be a ...
Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank That's staked out nigh three hundred claims, and every ...
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