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Spanish Men by Robert William Service
The Men of Seville are, they say,
The laziest of Spain.
Consummate artists in delay,
Allergical t..
Second Childhood by Robert William Service
When I go on my morning walk,
Because I’m mild,
If I be in the mood to talk
I choose a child.
I’..
Sea Change by Robert William Service
I saw a Priest in beetle black
Come to our golden beach,
And I was taken sore aback
Lest he shoul..
Sentimental Shark by Robert William Service
Give me a cabin in the woods
Where not a human soul intrudes;
Where I can sit beside a stream
Ben..
Sympathy by Robert William Service
My Muse is simple,--yet it’s nice
To think you don’t need to think twice
On words I write.
I reck..
Spanish Women by Robert William Service
The Spanish women don’t wear slacks
Because their hips are too enormous.
’Tis true each bulbous bo..
Spartan Mother by Robert William Service
My mother loved her horses and
Her hounds of pedigree;
She did not kiss the baby hand
I held to h..
Someone's Mother by Robert William Service
Someone’s Mother trails the street
Wrapt in rotted rags;
Broken slippers on her feet
Drearily she..
Soldier Boy by Robert William Service
My soldier boy has crossed the sea
To fight the foeman;
But he’ll come back to make of me
And hon..
Secretary by Robert William Service
My Master is a man of might
With manners like a hog;
He makes me slave from morn to night
And tre..
Success by Robert William Service
You ask me what I call Success -
It is, I wonder, Happiness?
It is not wealth, it is not fame,
..
Segregation by Robert William Service
I stood beside the silken rope,
Five dollars in my hand,
And waited in my patient hope
To sit ane..
Spring Night in the Imperial Chancellery by Tu Fu
Evening falls on palace walls shaded by flowering trees, with cry of birds
flying past on their way..
Saadi by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trees in groves,
Kine in droves,
In ocean sport the scaly herds,
Wedge-like cleave the air the bi..
Suum Cuique by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rain has spoiled the farmer’s day;
Shall sorrow put my books away?
Thereby are two days lost:
..
Sursum Corda by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek not the Spirit, if it hide,
Inexorable to thy zeal:
Baby, do not whine and chide;
Art thou n..
South Country by Kenneth Slessor
After the whey-faced anonymity
Of river-gums and scribbly-gums and bush,
After the rubbing and t..
Sleep by Kenneth Slessor
Do you give yourself to me utterly,
Body and no-body, flesh and no-flesh
Not as a fugitive, bl..
St. Winefred's Well by Gerard Manley Hopkins
ACT I. SC. I
Enter Teryth from riding, Winefred following.
T. WHAT is it, Gwen, my girl? why d..
Strike, Churl by Gerard Manley Hopkins
Strike, churl; hurl, cheerless wind, then; heltering hail
May’s beauty massacre and wisp?d wild cl..
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