Fighting Mac (Robert William Service Poems)
A Life TragedyA pistol shot rings round and round the world;In pitiful defeat a warrior lies.A last defiance to dark ...
A Life TragedyA pistol shot rings round and round the world;In pitiful defeat a warrior lies.A last defiance to dark ...
One day the Great Designer sought His Clerk of Birth and Death. Said he: "Two souls are in my thought, ...
"Flowers, only flowers -- bring me dainty posies, Blossoms for forgetfulness," that was all he said; So we sacked our ...
I am the Cannon King, behold! I perish on a throne of gold. With forest far and turret high, Renowned ...
A Frenchman and an Englishman Resolved to fight a duel, And hit upon a savage plan, Because their hate was ...
Said the Door: "She came in With no shadow of sin; Turned the key in the lock, Slipped out of ...
Humping it here in the dug-out, Sucking me black dudeen, I'd like to say in a general way, There's nothing ...
For oh, when the war will be over We'll go and we'll look for our dead; We'll go when the ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
Though Virtue hurt you Vice is nice; Aye, Parson says it's wrong, Yet for my pleasing I'll suffice With Women, ...
I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes In weary, woeful, waiting times; In doleful hours of battle-din, Ere yet they ...
I was Mojeska's leading man And famous parts I used to play, But now I do the best I can ...
This is the song of the parson's son, as he squats in his shack alone, On the wild, weird nights, ...
Father drank himself to death,-- Quite enjoyed it. Urged to draw a sober breath He'd avoid it. 'Save your sympathy,' ...
When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring, To take the pay of ...
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
We have no aspiration vain For paradise Utopian, And here in our sun-happy Spain, Though man exploit his fellow man, ...
A Belgian Priest-Soldier Speaks; GURR! You cochon! Stand and fight! Show your mettle! Snarl and bite! Spawn of an accursed ...
(The French "Tommy"). Oh, some of us lolled in the chateau, And some of us slinked in the slum; But ...
Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the road from Mons to Wipers (I've 'ammered out this ditty with me bruised and ...
Three score and ten, the psalmist saith, And half my course is well-nigh run; I've had my flout at dusty ...
"You're bloody right - I was a Red," The Man from Cook's morosely said. And if our chaps had won ...
Jack would laugh an' joke all day; Never saw a lad so gay; Singin' like a medder lark, Loaded to ...
What would I choose to see when I To this bright earth shall bid good-bye? When fades forever from my ...
O'er the dark pines she sees the silver moon, And in the west, all tremulous, a star; And soothing sweet ...
The little pink house is high on the hill And my heart is not what it used to be; It ...
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
A mattock high he swung; I watched him at his toil; With never gulp of lung He gashed the ruddy ...
O God, take the sun from the sky! It's burning me, scorching me up. God, can't You hear my cry? ...
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