Poetic Openings : Robert William Service to Robert William Service

Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : The Reckoning : First Line : It’s fine to have a blow-out in a fancy restaurant,
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : The Record : First Line : Fearing that she might go one day
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : The Red Retreat : First Line : Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the road from Mons to Wipers
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : The Release : First Line : To-day within a grog-shop near
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : The Return : First Line : They turned him loose; he bowed his head,

Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : The Revelation : First Line : The same old sprint in the morning, boys, to the same old din and smut;
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : The Rhyme Of The Remittance Man : First Line : There’s a four-pronged buck a-swinging in the shadow of my cabin,
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : The Rhyme Of The Restless Ones : First Line : We couldn’t sit and study for the law;
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : The Robbers : First Line : Alas! I see that thrushes three
Poet : Robert William Service : Poem : The Rover : First Line : Oh, how good it is to be