English Poetry. Robert William Service. Ambition. Роберт Уильям Сервис.

Robert William Service (Роберт Уильям Сервис)

Ambition

They brought the mighty chief to town;
They showed him strange, unwonted sights;
Yet as he wandered up and down,
He seemed to scorn their vain delights.
His face was grim, his eye lacked fire,
As one who mourns a glory dead;
And when they sought his heart's desire:
"Me like'um tooth same gold," he said.

A dental place they quickly found.
He neither moaned nor moved his head.
They pulled his teeth so white and sound;
They put in teeth of gold instead.
Oh, never saw I man so gay!
His very being seemed to swell:
"Ha! ha!" he cried, "Now Injun say
Me heap big chief, me look like hell."

Robert William Service’s other poems:

1. Spanish Women
2. The Prospector
3. Playboy
4. Pullman Porter
5. Abandoned Dog

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик)) Ambition (“In man, ambition is the common’st thing”)

Edward Thomas (Эдвард Томас) Ambition (“Unless it was that day I never knew”)

Madison Cawein (Мэдисон Кавейн) Ambition (“Now to my lips lift then some opiate”)

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