Milking Time (Robert William Service Poems)
There's a drip of honeysuckle in the deep green lane; There's old Martin jogging homeward on his worn old wain; ...
There's a drip of honeysuckle in the deep green lane; There's old Martin jogging homeward on his worn old wain; ...
I don't think men of eighty odd Should let a surgeon operate; Better to pray for peace with God, And ...
I have a tiny piney wood; my trees are only fifty, Yet give me shade and solitude For they are ...
First Ghost To sepulcher my mouldy bones I bough a pile of noble stones, And half a year a sculptor ...
Could Fate ordain a lot for me Beyond all human ills, I think that I would choose to be A ...
I grabbed the new Who's Who to see My name - but it was not. Said I: "The form they ...
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
I look into the aching womb of night; I look across the mist that masks the dead; The moon is ...
My Pa and Ma their honeymoon Passed in an Andulasian June, And though produced in Drury Lane, I must have ...
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
When I went by the meadow gate The chestnut mare would trot to meet me, And as her coming I ...
Alas! I see that thrushes three Are ravishing my old fig tree, In whose green shade I smoked my pipe ...
The woes of men beyond my ken Mean nothing more to me. Behold my world, and Eden hurled From Heaven ...
This is the pay-day up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down; There's money to burn in the ...
A Wintertide we had been wed When Jan went off to sea; And now the laurel rose is red And ...
Full fifty merry maids I heard One summer morn a-singing; And each was like a joyous bird With spring-clear not ...
Ruins in Rome are four a penny, And here along the Appian Way I see the monuments of many Esteemed ...
A very humble pen I ply Beneath a cottage thatch; And in the sunny hours I try To till my ...
Humping it here in the dug-out, Sucking me black dudeen, I'd like to say in a general way, There's nothing ...
In idle dream with pipe in hand I looked across the Square, And saw the little chapel stand In eloquent ...
Missis Moriarty called last week, and says she to me, says she: "Sure the heart of me's broken entirely now ...
He burned a hole in frozen muck, He pierced the icy mould, And there in six-foot dirt he struck A ...
The little pink house is high on the hill And my heart is not what it used to be; It ...
Men have navels more or less; Some are neat, some not Being fat I must confess Mine is far from ...
(The French "Tommy"). Oh, some of us lolled in the chateau, And some of us slinked in the slum; But ...
There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years ...
My lead dog Mike was like a bear; I reckon he was grizzly bred, For when he reared up in ...
'Twas in a village in Lorraine Whose name I quite forget, I found I needfully was fain To buy a ...
Being a writer I receive Sweet screeds from folk of every land; Some are so weird you'd scarce believe, And ...
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