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Distressed Haiku by Donald Hall
In a week or ten days
the snow and ice
will melt from Cemetery Road.
I’m coming! Don’t move!
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Dans le Restaurant by T. S. Eliot
LE garçon délabré qui n’a rien à faire
Que de se gratter les doigts et se pencher sur mon épaule:
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Depressed By A Book Of Bad Poetry, I Walk Toward An Unused Pasture And Invite The Insects To Join Me
Relieved, I let the book fall behind a stone.
I climb a slight rise of grass.
I do not want to dis..
Duello by Robert William Service
A Frenchman and an Englishman
Resolved to fight a duel,
And hit upon a savage plan,
Because their..
Decadence by Robert William Service
Before the florid portico
I watched the gamblers come and go,
While by me on a bench there sat
A..
Divine Detachment by Robert William Service
One day the Great Designer sought
His Clerk of Birth and Death.
Said he: "Two souls are in my thou..
Decorations by Robert William Service
My only medals are the scars
I’ve won in weary, peacetime wars,
A-fighting for my little brood,
T..
Dram-Shop Ditty by Robert William Service
I drink my fill of foamy ale
I sing a song, I tell a tale,
I play the fiddle;
My throat is chroni..
Dedication To Providence by Robert William Service
I loved to toy with tuneful rhyme,
My fancies into verse to weave;
For as I walked my words would..
Detachment by Robert William Service
As I go forth from fair to mart
With racket ringing,
Who would divine that in my heart
Mad larks..
Dumb Swede by Robert William Service
With barbwire hooch they filled him full,
Till he was drunker than all hell,
And then they peddled..
Dedication by Robert William Service
In youth I longed to paint
The loveliness I saw;
And yet by dire constraint
I had to study Law.
..
Death In The Arctic by Robert William Service
I
I took the clock down from the shelf;
"At eight," said I, "I shoot myself."
It lacked a minut..
Death And Life by Robert William Service
’Twas in the grave-yard’s gruesome gloom
That May and I were mated;
We sneaked inside and on a tom..
Don't Cheer by Robert William Service
Don’t cheer, damn you! Don’t cheer!
Silence! Your bitterest tear
Is fulsomely sweet to-day. . . .
..
Dreams by Robert William Service
I had a dream, a dream of dread:
I thought that horror held the house;
A burglar bent above my bed..
Dark Truth by Robert William Service
Birds have no consciousness of doom:
Yon thrush that serenades me daily
From scented snow of hawth..
Design by Robert William Service
Said Seeker of the skies to me:
"Behold yon starry host ashine!
When Heaven’s harmony you see
How..
Drifter by Robert William Service
God gave you guts: don’t let Him down;
Brace up, be worthy of His giving.
The road’s a rut, the sk..
Dance-Hall Girls by Robert William Service
Where are the dames I used to know
In Dawson in the days of yore?
Alas, it’s fifty years ago,
And..
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