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 ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
Being a writer I receive Sweet screeds from folk of every land; Some are so weird you'd scarce believe, And ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine, Your harps and your tabors and cymbals and a', But ...
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
Before the florid portico I watched the gamblers come and go, While by me on a bench there sat A ...
Missis Moriarty called last week, and says she to me, says she: "Sure the heart of me's broken entirely now ...
I look into the aching womb of night; I look across the mist that masks the dead; The moon is ...
Moko, the Educated Ape is here, The pet of vaudeville, so the posters say, And every night the gaping people ...
They turned him loose; he bowed his head, A felon, bent and grey. His face was even as the Dead, ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
Jack would laugh an' joke all day; Never saw a lad so gay; Singin' like a medder lark, Loaded to ...
A Belgian Priest-Soldier Speaks; GURR! You cochon! Stand and fight! Show your mettle! Snarl and bite! Spawn of an accursed ...
We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure, Of men who played the game and lost or won; Of mad ...
This is the pay-day up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down; There's money to burn in the ...
O'er the dark pines she sees the silver moon, And in the west, all tremulous, a star; And soothing sweet ...
Pedlar's coming down the street, Housewives beat a swift retreat. Don't you answer to the bell; Heedless what she has ...
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
Oh, how good it is to be Foot-loose and heart-free! Just my dog and pipe and I, underneath the vast ...
They asked the Bard of Ayr to dine; The banquet hall was fit and fine, With gracing it a Lord; ...
Past ash cans and alley cats, Fetid. overflowing gutters, Leprous lines of rancid flats Where the frowsy linen flutters; With ...
Humping it here in the dug-out, Sucking me black dudeen, I'd like to say in a general way, There's nothing ...
Said the Door: "She came in With no shadow of sin; Turned the key in the lock, Slipped out of ...
In the moonless, misty night, with my little pipe alight, I am sitting by the camp-fire's fading cheer; Oh, the ...
'Why did the lady in the lift Slap that poor parson's face?' Said Mother, thinking as she sniffed, Of clerical ...
The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee ...
The harridan who holds the inn At which I toss a pot, Is old and uglier than sin,-- I'm glad ...
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