Breton Wife (Robert William Service Poems)
A Wintertide we had been wed When Jan went off to sea; And now the laurel rose is red And ...
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 ...
Moko, the Educated Ape is here, The pet of vaudeville, so the posters say, And every night the gaping people ...
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land, Where all except the flag is strange ...
A mattock high he swung; I watched him at his toil; With never gulp of lung He gashed the ruddy ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
The Sergeant of a Highland Reg- -Iment was drilling of his men; With temper notably on edge He blest them ...
We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure, Of men who played the game and lost or won; Of mad ...
'Come, see,' said he, 'my four-foot shelf, A forty volume row; And every one I wrote myself, But that, of ...
In the moonless, misty night, with my little pipe alight, I am sitting by the camp-fire's fading cheer; Oh, the ...
You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine, Your harps and your tabors and cymbals and a', But ...
An Ancient gaffer once I knew, Who puffed a pipe and tossed a tankard; He claimed a hundred years or ...
The Countess sprawled beside the sea As naked a she well could be; Indeed her only garments were A "G" ...
When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore; ...
When you have sailed the seven seas And looped the ends of earth, You'll long at last for slippered ease ...
They turned him loose; he bowed his head, A felon, bent and grey. His face was even as the Dead, ...
What would I choose to see when I To this bright earth shall bid good-bye? When fades forever from my ...
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