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Submit Human Translation | Discuss Poem | Post Poetry | Listen McGill Live "?" by Robert Service If you had the choice of two women to wed, (Though of course the idea is quite absurd) And the first from her heels to her dainty head Was charming in every sense of the word: And yet in the past (I grieve to state), She never had been exactly "straight". And the second -- she was beyond all cavil, A model of virtue, I must confess; And yet, alas! she was dull as the devil, And rather a dowd in the way of dress; Though what she was lacking in wit and beauty, She more than made up for in "sense of duty". Now, suppose you must wed, and make no blunder, And either would love you, and let you win her -- Which of the two would you choose, I wonder, The stolid saint or the sparkling sinner? American Review | www.PaperLyon.com | McGill Live Radio | Publish

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Poems by Robert Service Abandoned Dog Accordion Adoption Adventure Afternoon Tea Agnostic Agnostic Apology Alias Bill Allouette Alpine Holiday Amateur Poet Ambition Annuitant Anti-Profanity Ant Hill An Epicure An Old Story An Olive Fire Apollo Belvedere Armistice Day 1953 Artist Aspiration Athabaska Dick Atoll At Eighty Years At San Sebastian At The Golden Pig At The Parade At Thirty-Five Aunt Jane Awake To Smile A Bachelor A Busy Man A Cabbage Patch A Canvas For A Crust A Casualty 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 Suicide A Song Of The Sandbags A Song Of Winter Weather A Sourdough Story A Versemans Apology A Year Ago Babette Baby Sitter Balloon Bank Robber Barb-Wire Bill Barcelona Bastard Beachcomber Beak-Bashing Boy Bed Sitter Belated Bard Belated Conscience Benjamin Franklin Bessies Boil Bills Grave Bills Prayer Bill The Bomber Bindle Stiff Bingo Birds Of A Feather Bird Sanctuary Bird Watcher Birthday Birthdays Black Moran Bonehead Bill Bookshelf Book Borrower Book Lover Boon Soul Boxers Wife Brave Coward Brave New World Breakfast Breath Is Enough Breton Wife Brother Jim Cafeacute Comedy Canine Conversation Captivity Cardiac Careers Carry On Causation Celebates Charity Cheer Child Lover Cinderella Clancy Of The Mounted Police Class-Mates Clemenceau Cocotte Comfort Compassion Compensation Pete Comrades Confetti In The Wind Conqueror Contentment Contrast Convicts Love Canaries Courage Cowardice Cows Dance-Hall Girls Dark Glasses Dark Trinity Dark Truth Days Deaths Way Death And Life Death In The Arctic Death Of A Cockroach Decadence Decorations Dedication Dedication To Providence Design Detachment Distracted Druggist Divine Detachment Divine Device Dolls Domestic Scene Dont Cheer Dram-Shop Ditty Dreams Dreams Are Best Drifter Duello Dumb Swede Dunce Dylan Dyspeptic Clerk Each Day A Life Eighty Not Out Einstein Elementalist Enemy Conscript Epitaph Equality Erico Ernie Pyle Escape Euthansia Evenfall Expectation Externalism Eyrie Facility Failure Faith Fallen Leaves Familiarity Farewell To Verse Fear Fi-Fi In Bed Fidelity Fighting Mac Finale Finality Finistere Finnigans Finish Fisherfolk Five-Per-Cent Fleurette Flies Flight Florentine Pilgrim Florrie Fool Faith Flower Gardener Fore-Warning Forgotten Master Fortitude Forward Four-Foot Shelf Freedoms Fool Freethinker Frustration Fulfilment Funk Futility Gangrene Gentle Gaoler Ghosts Gignol Gipsy Gods Battleground Gods Grief Gods In The Gutter Gods Skallywags Gods Vagabond Going Home Golden Days Good-Bye Little Cabin Grand-Pas Whim Grand-Pegravere Grandad Grey Gull Grin Growing Old Grumpy Grandpa Gypsy Jill Hate Heart O The North Henry Hero Worship Her Letter Her Toys Highland Hospitality His Boys Hobo Home And Love Horatio Hot Digitty Dog Humility If You Had A Friend Ignorance Imagination Immortality Im Scared Of It All Include Me Out Indifference Infidelity Infirmities Innocence Insomnia Inspiration Intolerance It Is Later Than You Think I Have Some Friends I Shall Not Burn I Will Not Fight Jaloppy Joy Jane Jean Desprez Jim Jobson Of The Star Joey Julie Claire Julot The Apache Just Think Kail Yard Bard Kathleen Katie Drummond Kelly Of The Legion Kings Must Die Kittens Land Mine Last Look Laughter Laziness Learn To Like Leaves LEnvoi LEscargot DOr Les Grands Mutiles Lindy Lou Lip-Stick Liz Little Brother Little Moccasins Little Puddleton Lobster For Lunch Local Lad Longevity Lord Let Me Live Lost Lost Kitten Lost Shepherd Lottery Ticket Lowly Laureate Lucille Lucindy Jane MACTAVISH Madam La Maquise Mad Maria Maids In May Making Good Mammy Man Child Marie Antoinette Mary Ellen Maternity May Miracle Mazies Ghost McCluskys Nell Men Of The High North Michael Mike Milking Time Miracles Missis Moriartys Boy Miss Mischievous Mistinguette Montreal Maree Moon-Lover Moon Song Mud Munition Maker Murderers Music In The Bush My Ancestors My Baynit My Bear My Book My Boss My Brothers My Calendar My Cancer Cure My Centenarian My Chapel My Childhood God My Coffin My Consolation My Cross My Cuckoo Clock My Dentist My Dog My Dogs My Boss My Favoured Fare My Favourite Fan My Feud My Foe My Friends My Future My Garden My Garret My Guardian Angel My Hero My Holiday My Hour My House My Hundred Books My Husbands My Husky Team My Indian Summer My Inner Life My Job My Library My Madonna My Masterpiece My Masters My Mate My Neighbors My Picture My Piney Wood My Prisoner My Rival My Rocking-Chair My Room My Son My Suicide My Tails My Trinity My Twins My Typewriter My Vineyard My White Mouse My Will Natures Touch Natures Way Navels Negress In Notre Dame Neighbours New Years Eve Noctambule No Lilies For Lisette No More Music No Neck-Tie Party No Sourdough No Sunday Chicken Obesity Oh It Is Good Old Bob Old Boy Scout Old Codger Old Crony Old David Smail Old Ed Old Engine Driver Old Scout Old Sweethearts Old Tom Old Trouper Ommission Only A Boche On The Boulevard On The Wire Orphan School Our Daily Bread Our Hero Our Pote Over The Parapet O Lovely Lie Pantheist Patches Pavement Poet Pedlar Perfection Periods Picture Dealer Pilgrims Pipe Smoker Playboy Plebeian Plutocrat Poets Path Poet And Peer Politeness Pooch Poor Cock Robin Poor Kid Poor Peter Poor Poet Portent Portrait Post Office Romance Pragmatic Prayer Prelude Premonition Priscilla Privacy Procreation Profane Poet Property Pullman Porter Quatrains Ragetty Doll Raising The Flag Red-Tiled Roof Regret Relativity Relax Remorse Repentance Reptiles And Roses Resignation Resolutions Retired Retired Shopman Reverence Rhyme-Smith Rhyme Builder Rhyme For My Tomb Rich Poor Man Ripeness Ripe Fruit Rivera Honeymoon Romance Room 4 The Painter Chap Room 5 The Concert Singer Room 6 The Little Workgirl Room 7 The Coco-Fiend Room Ghost Rose Leaves Rosy-Kins Roulette Rovers Rest Ruins Sacrifice Sailors Sweetheart Sailor Son Schizophrenic Sea Change Sea Sorcery Second Childhood Secretary Security Segregation Self-Made Man Sensibility Sensitive Burglar Sentimental Hangman Sentimental Shark Seven Seville Shakespeare And Cervantes Shiela Silence Simplicity Sinister Sooth Six Feet Of Sod Slugging Saint Soldier Boy Someones Mother Son Song Of The Sardine Spanish Men Spanish Peasant Spanish Women Spartan Mother Spats Stamp Collector Stowaway Strip Teaser Striving Stupidity Success Successful Failure Sunshine Suppose Surtax Susie Sympathy Take It Easy Tea On The Lawn Teddy Bear The Actor The Absinthe Drinkers The Afflicted The Aftermath The Alcaacutezar The Anniversary The Answer The Ape And God The Ape And I The Argument The Artist The Atavist The Auction Sale The Baldness Of Chewed-Ear The Ballad Of Blasphemous Bill The Ballad Of Caseys Billy-Goat The Ballad Of Gum-Boot Ben The Ballad Of Hank The Finn The Ballad Of Hard-Luck Henry The Ballad Of How Macpherson Held T The Ballad Of Lenins Tomb The Ballad Of One-Eyed Mike The Ballad Of Pious Pete The Ballad Of Salvation Bill The Ballad Of Soulful Sam The Ballad Of The Black Fox Skin The Ballad Of The Brand The Ballad Of The Ice-Worm Cocktail The Ballad Of The Leather Medal The Ballad Of The Northern Lights The Ballad Of Touch-The-Button Nell The Bandit The Battle The Battle Of The Bulge The Biologic Urge The Black Dudeen The Black Sheep The Blind And The Dead The Bliss Of Ignorance The Blood-Red Fourragere The Bohemian The Bohemian Dreams The Booby-Trap The Boola-Boola Maid The Bread-Knife Ballad The Bulls The Buyers The Call The Call Of The Wild The Cat With Wings The Centenarian The Centenarians The Choice The Christmas Tree The Comforter The Contented Man The Contrast The Convalescent The Cow-Juice Cure The Coward The Cremation Of Sam McGee The Cuckoo The Damned The Dauber The Death Of Marie Toro The Decision The Defeated The Dream The Dreamer The Duel The End Of The Trail The Enigma The Faceless Man The Farmers Daughter The Flower Shop The Fool The Front Tooth The Ghosts The Goat And I The God Of Common-Sense The Gramaphone At Fond-Du-Lac The Great Recall The Haggis Of Private McPhee The Hand The Harpy The Hat The Headliner And The Breadliner The Healer The Hearth-Stone The Heart Of The Sourdough The Hinterland The Home-Coming The Homicide The Host The Idealist The Joy Of Being Poor The Joy Of Little Things The Judgement The Junior God The Key Of The Street The Land God Forgot The Land Of Beyond The Lark The Last Supper The Law Of Laws The Law Of The Yukon The Leaning Tower The Learner The Legless Man The Little Old Log Cabin The Little Piou-Piou The Living Dead The Locket The Logger The Lone Trail The Lost Master The Lottery The Low-Down White The Lunger The Lure Of Little Voices The Macaronis The Man From Athabaska The Man From Cooks The Man From Eldorado The Man Who Knew The March Of The Dead The Men That Dont Fit In The Missal Makers The Mole The Monster The Mother The Mountain And The Lake The Mourners The Mystery Of Mister Smith The Nostomaniac The Odyssey Of Erbert Iggins The Old The Old Armchair The Old General The Ordinary Man The Other One The Outlaw The Palace The Parsons Son The Parting The Passing Of The Year The Pencil Seller The Petit Vieux The Philanderer The Philistine And The Bohemian The Pigeons Of St Marks The Pigeon Shooting The Pines The Portrait The Pretty Lady The Prisoner The Prospector The Quest The Quitter The Receptionist The Reckoning The Record The Red Retreat The Release The Return The Revelation The Rhyme Of The Remittance Man The Rhyme Of The Restless Ones The Robbers The Rover The Sacrifices The Sceptic The Score The Scribes Prayer The Seance The Search The Seed The Sewing-Girl The Shooting Of Dan McGrew The Shorter Catechism The Sightless Man The Silent Ones The Smoking Frog The Sniper The Soldier Of Fortune The Song Of The Camp-Fire The Song Of The Mouth-Organ The Song Of The Pacifist The Song Of The Soldier-Born The Song Of The Wage-Slave The Spell Of The Yukon The Spirit Of The Unborn Babe The Squaw Man The Stretcher-Bearer The Sum-Up The Summing Up The sunshine seeks my little room The Super The Telegraph Operator The Thinker The Three Bares The Three Tommies The Three Voices The Trail Of Ninety-Eight The Trail Of No Return The Tramps The Trappers Christmas Eve The Trust The Tunnel The Twa Jocks The Twins The Twins Of Lucky Strike The Under-Dogs The Undying The Visionary The Volunteer The Walkers The Wanderlust The Wee Shop The Wedding Ring The Whistle Of Sandy McGraw The Widow The Widower The Wife The Wildy Ones The Wistful One The Woman And The Angel The Woman At The Gate The Womb The Wonderer The Wood-Cutter The Worlds All Right The Younger Son The Yukoner Three Wives Tick-Tock Tim Tipperary Days Titine Toilet Seats Toledo Tom Tom Paine Tourist Tourists To A Stuffed Shirt To A Tycoon To Frank Dodd To Sunnydale To The Man Of The High North Tranquilism Tranquillity Treat Em Rough Trees Against The Sky Tri-Colour Triumph Trixie Two Blind Men Two Children Two Graves Two Husbands Two Men J L And R B Two Words Unforgotten Vain Venture Unholy Trinity Vanity Victory Stuff Village Don Juan Village Virtue Violet De Vere Virginity Visibility Wallflower Warsaw Washerwife Was It You Weary Weary Waitress What Kisses Had John Keats Wheels While The Bannock Bakes White-Collar Spaniard White Christmas Why Why Do Birds Sing Willie Winding Wool Window Shopper Wine Bibber Winnie Wistful Wonder Words Work Work And Joy Worms Wounded Wrestling Match Yellow Young Fellow My Lad Young Mother Your Poem You And Me You Cant Can Love

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R.S. Thomas	Rainer Maria Rilke	Ralph Emerson
Randall Jarrell	Raymond Carver	Richard Brautigan
Richard Crashaw	Richard Hugo	Richard Lovelace
Richard Wilbur	Robert Browning	Robert Burns
Robert Creeley	Robert Francis	Robert Frost
Robert Graves	Robert Herrick	Robert Lowell
Robert Pinsky	Robert Service	Rudyard Kipling
Rupert Brooke	Russell Edson

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