Stamp Collector (Robert William Service Poems)
My worldly wealth I hoard in albums three, My life collection of rare postage stamps; My room is cold and ...
My worldly wealth I hoard in albums three, My life collection of rare postage stamps; My room is cold and ...
Familiarity some claim Can breed contempt, So from it let it be your aim To be exempt. Let no one ...
'Ave you seen Bill's mug in the Noos to-day? 'E's gyned the Victoriar Cross, they say; Little Bill wot would ...
My Louis loved me oh so well And spiered me for his wife; He would have haled me from the ...
Lolling on a bank of thyme Drunk with Spring I made this rhyme. . . . Though peoples perish in ...
No matter how he toil and strive The fate of every man alive With luck will be to lie alone, ...
When I was cub reporter I Would interview the Great, And sometimes they would make reply, And sometimes hesitate; But ...
I scanned two lines with some surmise As over Keats I chanced to pore: 'And there I shut her wild, ...
The waves have a story to tell me, As I lie on the lonely beach; Chanting aloft in the pine-tops, ...
Let us be thankful, Lord, for little things - The song of birds, the rapture of the rose; Cloud-dappled skies, ...
The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lordly mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as ...
Softly every night they come To the picture show, That old couple, deaf and dumb In the second row; Wistful ...
Up in my garret bleak and bare I tilted back on my broken chair, And my three old pals were ...
We pitied him because He lived alone; His tiny cottage was His only own. His little garden had A wall ...
There once was a Square, such a square little Square, And he loved a trim Triangle; But she was a ...
If you're up against a bruiser and you're getting knocked about -- Grin. If you're feeling pretty groggy, and you're ...
I was a seed that fell In silver dew; And nobody could tell, For no one knew; No one could ...
If the good King only knew, Lindy Lou, What a cherub child are you, It is true, He would step ...
The lone man gazed and gazed upon his gold, His sweat, his blood, the wage of weary days; But now ...
Each day when it's anighing three Old Dick looks at the clock, Then proudly brings my stick to me To ...
School yourself to savour most Joys that have but little cost; Prove the best of life is free, Sun and ...
He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town, In moccasins and oily buckskin shirt. He's gaunt as ...
On the tide you ride head high, Like a whale 'mid little fishes; I should envy you as I Help ...
When day is done I steal away To fold my hands in rest, And of my hours this moment grey ...
If she met him or he met her, I knew that something must occur; For they were just like flint ...
A prisoner speaks: Majority of twenty-three, I face the Judge with joy and glee; For am I not a lucky ...
Being a shorty, as you see, A bare five footer, The why my wife is true to me Is my ...
Oh I have worn my mourning out, And on her grave the green grass grows; So I will hang each ...
And so when he reached my bed The General made a stand: "My brave young fellow," he said, "I would ...
Dick's dead! It was the Polack guard Put powdered glass into his cage When I was tramping round the yard,-- ...
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