Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Robert William Service quotes, Robert William Service sayings, and Robert William Service proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
A failing for profanity / So to delight the dears I try, / And often in the past / In fabricating sonnets I / Have fulminated: 'Blast!'Robert William Service
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He festered in a Marseilles slum, / A starving genius, god-inspired. / You'd take him for a lousy bum, / Tho' poetry of paint he lyred, / In dreamy pastels each a gem: . . . / How people laughed at them!Robert William Service
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Oh sure I could go on — but gee! it's rough / To be a pork-and-beaner at the best; / To beg for bouts, yet getting not enough / To keep a decent feed inside my vest; / To go on canvas-kissing till I come / To cadge for drinks just like a Bowery bum.Robert William Service
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My brother is a man of weight; / For every civic plum / He grabs within one pie of state, / While I am just a bum.Robert William Service
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Slouching along in smelly rags, a bleary-eyed, no-good bum; / A knight of the hollow needle, pard, spewed from the sodden slum.Robert William Service
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When I was brash and gallant-gay / Just fifty years ago, / I hit the ties and beat my way / From Maine to Mexico; / For though to Glasgow gutter bred / A hobo heart had I, / And followed where adventure led, / Beneath a brazen sky.Robert William Service
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You know that old and withered man, that derelict of art, / Who for a paltry franc will make a crayon sketch of you? / In slouching hat and shabby cloak he looks and is the part, / A sodden old Bohemian, without a single sou.Robert William Service
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Gather around me, children dear; / The wind is high and the night is cold; / Closer, little ones, snuggle near; / Let's seek a story of ages old; / A magic tale of a bygone day, / Of lovely ladies and dragons dread; / Come, for you're all so tired of play, / We'll read till it's time to go to bed.Robert William Service
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Toil's a tunnel, there's no way out / For fellows, the like of' me; / A beggar wi' only a crust an' a clout / At the worst o' the worst is free; / but I work to eat, an' I eat to work; / It's always the same old round, / And I dassent fail for the day I shirk / They'll shovel me underground.Robert William Service
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A smiling little orchard and a big potato patch.Robert William Service
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A skinny, starving stray; it looked so pitifully small, a fluff of silver grey.Robert William Service
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To see the skinny hag in black who boosts you up the curb.Robert William Service
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Some poet chap had labelled man the noblest work of God: / I see myself a charlatan, a humbug and a fraud. / Yea, 'spite of show and shallow wit, an sentimental drool, / I know myself a hypocrite, a coward and a fool.Robert William Service
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I watched them in a bleary daze of bitterness and pain, / For oh, I missed the cheery blaze of vodka in my brain.Robert William Service
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Each sunny day upon my way / A goat I pass / He has a beard of silver grey / A bell of brass.Robert William Service
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Alas! though bards make verse sublime / And lines to quote / It takes a fool like me to rhyme / About a goat.Robert William Service
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Pines against the sky, / Pluming the purple hill; / Pines . . . and I wonder why, / Heart, you quicken and thrill? / Wistful heart of a boy, / Fill with a strange sweet joy, / Lifting to Heaven nigh - / Pines against the sky.Robert William Service
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Trees, trees against the sky - / O I have loved them well! / There are pleasures you cannot buy, / Treasurers you cannot sell, / And not the smallest of these / Is the gift and glory of trees. . . Robert William Service
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My Boss keeps sporty girls, they say; His belly's big with cheer.Robert William Service
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Sitting in the dentist's chair / Wishing that I wasn't there / To forget and pass the time / I have made this bit of rhyme.Robert William Service
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My dentist had a powerful wrist / He tries and tries in vain / To make me grunt or groan or squeal / With probe or rasp or drill.Robert William Service
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Sitting in the dental chair / Don't you wish you weren't there / Well, your cup of woe to fill / Just think of his infernal bill.Robert William Service
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I have no brief for gambling, nay / The notion I express / That money earned 's the only way / To pay for happiness. / With cards and dice I do not hold; / By betting I've been bit: / Conclusion: to get honest gold / You've got to sweat for it.Robert William Service
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We are wild as colts unbroke, but never mean. / Of our sins we've shoulders broad to bear the blame; / But we'll never stay in town and we'll never settle down, / And we'll never have an object or an aim.Robert William Service
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Oh, it is good afar to roam, / And seek adventure in strange lands; / Yet oh, so good the coming home, / The velvet love of little hands.Robert William Service
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I love the cheery bustle / Of children round the house, / The tidy maids a-hustle, / The chatter of my spouse; / The laughter and the singing, / The joy on every face: / With frequent laughter ringing, / O, Home's a happy place!Robert William Service
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His crowded life of God's good giving / No man has relished more than I; / I've been so goldarned busy living / I've never had the time to die. / So busy fishing, hunting, roving, / Up on my toes and fighting fit; / So busy singing, laughing, loving, / I've never had the time to quit.Robert William Service
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So feathered friend, until the end you may divide my den, / And make a mess, which (more or less) I clean up now and then. / But I prefer the doom to share of dead and gone compeers, / Than parrot be, and live to see ten times a hundred years.Robert William Service
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Carefree to be, as a bird that sings; / To go my own sweet way; / To reck not at all what may befall, / But to live and to love each day.Robert William Service
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Why should I be the first to fall / Of all the leaves on this old tree? / Though sadly soon I know that all / Will lose their hold and follow me. / While my birth-brothers bravely blow, / Why should I be first to go?Robert William Service