Robert William Service (1874-1958)
British-Canadian poet and writer

Poems by Robert William Service

• A Bachelor
• A Busy Man
• A Cabbage Patch
• A Character
• A Domestic Tragedy
• A Grain of Sand
• A Hero
• A Little Prayer
• A Lyric Day
• A Mediocre Man
• A Plea
• A Pot of Tea
• A Rolling Stone
• A Rusty Nail
• A Snifter
• A Song for Kilts
• A Song of Sixty-Five
• A Song of Success
• A Song of Winter Weather
• A Verseman's Apology
• A Year Ago
• Abandoned Dog
• Accordion
• Adoption
• Adventure
• Afternoon Tea
• Agnostic
• Allouette
• Amateur Poet
• Ambition
• An Epicure
• An Old Story
• Ant Hill
• Apollo Belvedere
• Artist
• At Eighty Years
• At San Sebastian
• At the Golden Pig
• Atoll
• Aunt Jane
• Awake to Smile
• Babette
• Balloon
• Bank Robber
• Barcelona
• Bastard
• Bed Sitter
• Belated Bard
• Benjamin Franklin
• Bill The Bomber
• Bindle Stiff
• Bingo
• Bird Watcher
• Birthday
• Black Moran
• Book Borrower
• Book Lover
• Bookshelf
• Boon Soul
• Brave Coward
• Breakfast
• Breton Wife
• Café Comedy
• Cardiac
• Carry On
• Causation
• Celebates
• Cheer
• Child Lover
• Clemenceau
• Cocotte
• Conqueror
• Courage (Ten little brown chicks scattered and scuffled)
• Cowardice
• Dark Glasses
• Dark Truth
• Days
• Death in the Arctic
• Decadence
• Decorations
• Dedication to Providence
• Dedication
• Divine Detachment
• Dreams
• Drifter
• Duello
• Dunce
• Dyspeptic Clerk
• Each Day a Life
• Einstein
• Enemy Conscript
• Erico
• Ernie Pyle
• Euthansia
• Evenfall
• Externalism
• Facility
• Failure
• Farewell to Verse
• Fi-Fi in Bed
• Finality
• Finistere
• Five-Per-Cent
• Fleurette
• Flies
• Fool Faith
• Freethinker
• Funk
• Futility
• Gangrene
• Gentle Gaoler
• Gods in the Gutter
• Going Home
• Golden Days
• Good-Bye, Little Cabin
• Grandad
• Grey Gull
• Grin
• Growing Old
• Grumpy Grandpa
• Hate
• Henry
• Her Toys
• His Boys
• Hobo
• Horatio
• Hot Digitty Dog
• Humility (I met upon a narrow way)
• I Believe
• “I Have no Doubt at all the Devil Grins”
• “I Have Some Friends”
• I Shall Not Burn
• “I Will Not Fight”
• “I'm Scared of It All”
• Ignorance
• Imagination
• Include Me Out
• Indifference
• Inspiration
• Intolerance
• It is Later than You Think
• Jaloppy Joy
• Jane
• Joey
• Julie Claire
• Just Think!
• Kail Yard Bard
• Kathleen
• Kings Must Die
• L'Envoi (Ever in the ebb and flow)
• L'Envoi (I guess this is the final score)
• L'Envoi (My job is done; my rhymes are ranked and ready)
• L'Envoi (We talked of yesteryears)
• Land Mine
• Last Look
• Laziness
• Leaves
• Lindy Lou
• Little Brother
• Little Moccasins
• Lobster for Lunch
• Local Lad
• Longevity
• Lost Kitten
• Madam La Maquise
• Making Good
• Mammy
• Man Child
• Matador
• Maternity
• May Miracle
• Mazie's Ghost
• Mike
• Milking Time
• Miracles
• Miss Mischievous
• Moon Song
• Moon-Lover
• Murderers
• My Bear
• My Calendar
• My Chapel
• My Childhood God
• My Cross
• My Cuckoo Clock
• My Dog
• My Favourite Fan
• My Foe
• My Garden
• My Garret
• My Guardian Angel
• My Holiday
• My Hour
• My House
• My Husky Team
• My Indian Summer
• My Job
• My Library
• My Madonna
• My Masters
• My Mate
• My Neighbors
• My Prisoner
• My Rival
• My Room
• My Son
• My Suicide
• My Tails
• My Trinity
• My White Mouse
• Navels
• Neighbours
• New Year's Eve
• No More Music
• No Sourdough
• Noctambule
• Obesity
• Old Bob
• Old Codger
• Old Crony
• Old Ed
• Old Engine Driver
• Old Sweethearts
• On the Wire
• Our Hero
• Over The Parapet
• Pantheist
• Patches
• Pedlar
• Pipe Smoker
• Playboy
• Poet and Peer
• Poet's Path
• Politeness
• Pooch
• Poor Kid
• Poor Peter
• Poor Poet
• Portent
• Portrait (Painter, would you make my picture?)
• Post Office Romance
• Pragmatic
• Prelude (I sing no idle songs of dalliance days)
• Prelude (In youth I gnawed life's bitter rind)
• Prelude (They say that rhyme and rhythm are)
• Prelude (To smite Apollo's lyre I am unable)
• Premonition
• Priscilla
• Privacy
• Procreation
• Profane Poet
• Pullman Porter
• Quatrains
• Ragetty Doll
• Raising the Flag
• Regret
• Relax
• Remorse
• Resignation
• Resolutions
• Retired Shopman
• Retired
• Reverence
• Ripeness
• Romance
• Room 4: The Painter Chap
• Room 7: The Coco-Fiend
• Room Ghost
• Rose Leaves
• Roulette
• Ruins
• Sacrifice
• Sailor Son
• Sea Change
• Sea Sorcery
• Security
• Sensibility
• Sensitive Burglar
• Seville
• Shiela
• Slugging Saint
• Spanish Women
• Spartan Mother
• Spats
• Stowaway
• Strip Teaser
• Striving
• Stupidity
• Successful Failure
• Success
• Sunshine
• Surtax
• Susie
• Take It Easy
• Tea on the Lawn
• Teddy Bear
• The Actor
• The Aftermath
• The Alcázar
• The Answer
• The Ape and God
• The Artist
• The Auction Sale
• The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
• The Ballad of Lenin's Tomb
• The Ballad of Soulful Sam
• The Ballad of the Leather Medal
• The Bandit
• The Battle of the Bulge
• The Bliss of Ignorance
• The Blood-Red Fourragere
• The Bohemian Dreams
• The Bulls
• The Call of the Wild
• The Centenarian
• The Choice (And then I came to Three ways)
• The Christmas Tree
• The Comforter
• The Contrast
• The Convalescent
• The Coward
• The Damned
• The Dreamer
• The Enigma
• The Faceless Man
• The Flower Shop
• The Front Tooth
• The Goat and I
• The Great Recall
• The Haggis
• The Hand
• The Harpy
• The Healer
• The Heart of the Sourdough
• The Hinterland
• The Home-Coming
• The Host
• The Idealist
• The Joy of Being Poor
• The Joy of Little Things
• The Judgement
• The Junior God
• The Land God Forgot
• The Lark
• The Law of the Yukon
• The Leaning Tower
• The Locket
• The Lone Trail
• The Lunger
• The Macaronis
• The Man from Eldorado
• The Men that don't Fit in
• The Missal Makers
• The Mother (Your children grow from you apart)
• The Nostomaniac
• The Old Armchair
• The Old
• The Ordinary Man
• The Outlaw
• The Parting
• The Philanderer
• The Pines
• The Portrait
• The Pretty Lady
• The Prisoner
• The Prospector
• The Quest
• The Reckoning
• The Record
• The Red Retreat
• The Release
• The Return
• The Robbers
• The Sceptic
• The Search (Happiness, a-roving round)
• The Shorter Catechism
• The Silent Ones
• The Smoking Frog
• The Sniper
• The Soldier of Fortune
• The Song of the Soldier-Born
• The Song of the Wage-Slave
• The Spell of the Yukon
• The Squaw Man
• The Stretcher-Bearer
• The Sum-Up
• The Summing Up
• The Telegraph Operator
• The Test
• The Thinker
• The Three Bares
• The Three Voices
• The Trust
• The Tunnel
• The Twins
• The Under-Dogs
• The Undying
• The Visionary
• The Volunteer
• The Wedding Ring
• The Wee Shop
• The Widower
• The Widow
• The Wistful One
• The Womb
• Tim
• Tipperary Days
• Titine
• To a Tycoon
• To Frank Dodd
• To Sunnydale
• Toledo
• Tom
• Tourist ('Twas in a village in Lorraine)
• Tourists
• Trees against the Sky
• Two Husbands
• Unforgotten
• Unholy Trinity
• Vanity
• Victory Stuff
• Village Don Juan
• Village Virtue
• Visibility
• Wallflower
• Washerwife
• Weary
• Willie
• Window Shopper
• Wounded
• Young Fellow My Lad
• Young Mother

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