A Bachelor
'Why keep a cow when I can buy,' / Said he, 'the milk I need,'
Robert Service
114 poems
A Busy Man
This crowded life of God's good giving / No man has relished more than I;
A Cabbage Patch
Folk ask if I'm alive, / Most think I'm not;
A Character
How often do I wish I were / What people call a character;
A Little Prayer
Let us be thankful, Lord, for little things - / The song of birds, the rapture of the rose;
A Mediocre Man
I'm just a mediocre man / Of no high-brow pretence;
A Plea
Why need we newer arms invent, / Poor peoples to destroy?
A Song For Kilts
How grand the human race would be / If every man would wear a kilt,
A Song Of Success
Ho! we were strong, we were swift, we were brave. / Youth was a challenge, and Life was a fight.
A Song Of Suicide
Deeming that I were better dead, / How shall I kill myself? I said.
Adoption
Because I was a woman lone / And had of friends so few,
Alias Bill
We bore him to his boneyard lot / One afternoon at three;
Annuitant
Oh I am neither rich nor poor, / No worker I dispoil;
Aspiration
When I was daft (as urchins are), / And full if fairy lore,
At Eighty Years
As nothingness draws near / How I can see
Aunt Jane
When Aunt Jane died we hunted round, / And money everywhere we found.
Baby Sitter
From torrid heat to frigid cold / I've rovered land and sea;
Balloon
I bought my little grandchild Ann / A bright balloon,
Barcelona
The night before I left Milan / A mob jammed the Cathedral Square,
Belated Conscience
To buy for school a copy-book / I asked my Dad for two-pence;