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Barcelona by Robert William Service
The night before I left Milan
A mob jammed the Cathedral Square,
And high the tide of passion ran
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Bindle Stiff by Robert William Service
When I was brash and gallant-gay
Just fifty years ago,
I hit the ties and beat my way
From Maine..
Balloon by Robert William Service
I bought my little grandchild Ann
A bright balloon,
And I was such a happy man
To hear her croon...
Bastard by Robert William Service
The very skies wee black with shame,
As near my moment drew;
The very hour before you cam
I felt..
Bookshelf by Robert William Service
I like to think that when I fall,
A rain-drop in Death’s shoreless sea,
This shelf of books along..
Beak-Bashing Boy by Robert William Service
But yesterday I banked on fistic fame,
Figgerin’ I’d be a champion of the Ring.
Today I’ve half a..
Bingo by Robert William Service
The daughter of the village Maire
Is very fresh and very fair,
A dazzling eyeful;
She throws upon..
Baby Sitter by Robert William Service
From torrid heat to frigid cold
I’ve rovered land and sea;
And now, with halting heart I hold
My..
Birds Of A Feather by Robert William Service
Of bosom friends I’ve had but seven,
Despite my years are ripe;
I hope they’re now enjoying Heaven..
Book Lover by Robert William Service
I keep collecting books I know
I’ll never, never read;
My wife and daughter tell me so,
And yet I..
Brother Jim by Robert William Service
My brother Jim’s a millionaire,
while I have scarce a penny;
His face is creased with lines of car..
Bessie's Boil by Robert William Service
Says I to my Missis: "Ba goom, lass! you’ve something I see, on your mind."
Says she: "You are righ..
Benjamin Franklin by Robert William Service
Franklin fathered bastards fourteen,
(So I read in the New Yorker);
If it’s true, in terms of cour..
Brave Coward by Robert William Service
Elisabeth imagines I’ve
A yellow streak
She deems I have no dash and drive,
Jest dogoned weak.
’..
Birthday by Robert William Service
(16th January 1949)
I thank whatever gods may be
For all the happiness that’s mine;
That I am f..
Birthdays by Robert William Service
Let us have birthdays every day,
(I had the thought while I was shaving)
Because a birthday should..
By the Lake by Tu Fu
The old fellow from Shao-ling weeps with stifled sobs as he walks furtively by the bends of the Sepe..
Ballad of the Old Cypress by Tu Fu
In front of the temple of Chu-ko Liang there is an old cypress. Its branches
are like green bronze;..
Ballad of the Army Carts by Tu Fu
The carts squeak and trundle, the horses whinny, the conscripts go by, each
with a bow and arrows a..
Berrying by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"May be true what I had heard,
Earth’s a howling wilderness
Truculent with fraud and force,"
Said..
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