Famous Light Up With Joy Poems by Famous Poets

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Sunshine

by Robert William Service
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Flat as a drum-head stretch the haggard snows;
The mighty skies are palisades of light;
The stars are blurred; the silence grows and grows;
Vaster and vaster vaults the icy night.
Here in my sleeping-bag I cower and pray:
"Silence and night, have pity! stoop and slay."

I have not slept for many, many days.
I close my eyes with weariness -- that's all.
I still have...Read more of this...

Momentary

by George William Russell
 THE SWEETEST song was ever sung
 May soothe you but a little while:
The gayest music ever rung
 Shall yield you but a fleeting smile.


The well I digged you soon shall pass:
 You may but rest with me an hour:
Yet drink, I offer you the glass,
 A moment of sustaining power,


And give to you, if it be gain,
 Whether in...Read more of this...

Weary Waitress

by Robert William Service
 Her smile ineffably is sweet,
 Devinely she is slim;
Yet oh how weary are her feet,
 How aches her every limb!
Thank God it's near to closing time,
 --Merciful midnight chime.

Then in her mackintosh she'll go
 Up seven flights of stairs,
And on her bed her body throw,
 Too tired to say her prayers;
Yet not too sleepy to forget
 Her cheap alarm...Read more of this...

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