Poetic Openings : Robert William Service to Robert William Service

Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : A Song Of Sixty-five : First Line : Brave Thackeray has trolled of days when he was twenty-one,
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : A Song Of Success : First Line : Ho! we were strong, we were swift, we were brave.
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : A Song Of Suicide : First Line : Deeming that I were better dead,
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : A Song Of The Sandbags : First Line : No, Bill, I’m not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : A Song Of Winter Weather : First Line : It isn’t the foe that we fear;

Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : A Sourdough Story : First Line : Hark to the Sourdough story, told at sixty below,
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : A Verseman's Apology : First Line : Alas! I am only a rhymer,
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : A Year Ago : First Line : I’m sitting by the fire tonight,
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : Abandoned Dog : First Line : They dumped it on the lonely road,
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : Accordion : First Line : Some carol of the banjo, to its measure keeping time;