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Skimbleshanks: The Railway Cat by T. S. Eliot
There’s a whisper down the line at 11.39
When the Night Mail’s ready to depart,
Saying "Skimble wh..
Small Frogs Killed On The Highway by James Wright
Still,
I would leap too
Into the light,
If I had the chance.
It is everything, the wet green sta..
Saint Judas by James Wright
When I went out to kill myself, I caught
A pack of hoodlums beating up a man.
Running to spare his..
Statue of a Couple by Czeslaw Milosz
Your hand, my wonder, is now icy cold.
The purest light of the celestial dome
has burned me throug..
Study Of Loneliness by Czeslaw Milosz
A guardian of long-distance conduits in the desert?
A one-man crew of a fortress in the sand?
Whoe..
Seville by Robert William Service
My Pa and Ma their honeymoon
Passed in an Andulasian June,
And though produced in Drury Lane,
I m..
Spanish Peasant by Robert William Service
We have no aspiration vain
For paradise Utopian,
And here in our sun-happy Spain,
Though man expl..
Shiela by Robert William Service
When I played my penny whistle on the braes above Lochgyle
The heather bloomed about us, and we hea..
Stowaway by Robert William Service
We’d left the sea-gulls long behind,
And we were almost in mid-ocean;
The sky was soft and blue an..
Stamp Collector by Robert William Service
My worldly wealth I hoard in albums three,
My life collection of rare postage stamps;
My room is c..
Song Of The Sardine by Robert William Service
A fat man sat in an orchestra stall and his cheeks were wet with tears,
As he gazed at the primadon..
Susie by Robert William Service
My daughter Susie, aged two,
Apes me in every way,
For as my household chores I do
With brooms sh..
Strip Teaser by Robert William Service
My precious grand-child, aged two,
Is eager to unlace one shoe,
And then the other;
Her cotton so..
Spats by Robert William Service
When young I was a Socialist
Despite my tender years;
No blessed chance I ever missed
To slam the..
Sinister Sooth by Robert William Service
Because my eyes were none to bright
Strong spectacles I bought,
And lo! there sprang into my sight..
Sensitive Burglar by Robert William Service
Selecting in the dining-room
The silver of his choice,
The burglar heard from chamber gloom
A fem..
Slugging Saint by Robert William Service
’Twas in a pub in Battersea
They call the "Rose and Crown,"
Quite suddenly, it seemed to me,
The..
Security by Robert William Service
There once was a limpet puffed with pride
Who said to the ribald sea:
"It isn’t I who cling to the..
Sailor Son by Robert William Service
When you come home I’ll not be round
To welcome you.
They’ll take you to a grassy mound
So neat a..
Self-Made Man by Robert William Service
A hundred people I employed,
But when they struck for higher pay,
I was so damnably annoyed
I tol..
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