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A Task by Czeslaw Milosz
In fear and trembling, I think I would fulfill my life
Only if I brought myself to make a public co..
An Olive Fire by Robert William Service
An olive fire’s a lovely thing;
Somehow it makes me think of Spring
As in my grate it over-spills
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At Thirty-Five by Robert William Service
Three score and ten, the psalmist saith,
And half my course is well-nigh run;
I’ve had my flout at..
A Rolling Stone by Robert William Service
There’s sunshine in the heart of me,
My blood sings in the breeze;
The mountains are a part of me,..
A Pot Of Tea by Robert William Service
You make it in your mess-tin by the brazier’s rosy gleam;
You watch it cloud, then settle amber cle..
Annuitant by Robert William Service
Oh I am neither rich nor poor,
No worker I dispoil;
Yet I am glad to be secure
From servitude and..
At The Golden Pig by Robert William Service
Where once with lads I scoffed my beer
The landlord’s lass I’ve wed.
Now I am lord and master here..
A Year Ago by Robert William Service
I’m sitting by the fire tonight,
The cat purrs on the rug;
The room’s abrim with rosy light,
Suav..
Agnostic by Robert William Service
The chapel looms against the sky,
Above the vine-clad shelves,
And as the peasants pass it by
The..
At The Parade by Robert William Service
I cannot flap a flag
Or beat a drum;
Behind the mob I lag
With larynx dumb;
Alas! I fear I’m not..
Armistice Day (1953) by Robert William Service
Don’t jeer because we celebrate
Armistice Day,
Though thirty years of sorry fate
Have passed away..
A Casualty by Robert William Service
That boy I took in the car last night,
With the body that awfully sagged away,
And the lips blood-..
Amateur Poet by Robert William Service
You see that sheaf of slender books
Upon the topmost shelf,
At which no browser ever looks,
Becau..
A Song Of Sixty-Five by Robert William Service
Brave Thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one,
And bounded up five flights of stairs,..
Artist by Robert William Service
He gave a picture exhibition,
Hiring a little empty shop.
Above its window: FREE ADMISSION
Cajole..
A Hero by Robert William Service
Three times I had the lust to kill,
To clutch a throat so young and fair,
And squeeze with all my..
A Mediocre Man by Robert William Service
I’m just a mediocre man
Of no high-brow pretence;
A comfortable life I plan
With care and commons..
Apollo Belvedere by Robert William Service
A-sitttin’ on a cracker box an’ spittin’ in the stove,
I took a sudden notion that I’d kindo’ like..
An Epicure by Robert William Service
Should you preserve white mice in honey
Don’t use imported ones from China,
For though they cost y..
At Eighty Years by Robert William Service
As nothingness draws near
How I can see
Inexorably clear
My vanity.
My sum of worthiness
Always..
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