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 ...
We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me; Fightin' wiv our bayonets was we; Fightin' 'ard as 'ell we was, ...
They asked the Bard of Ayr to dine; The banquet hall was fit and fine, With gracing it a Lord; ...
'A shilling's worth of quinine, please,' The customer demanded. The druggist went down on his knees And from a cupboard ...
Three score and ten, the psalmist saith, And half my course is well-nigh run; I've had my flout at dusty ...
First Ghost To sepulcher my mouldy bones I bough a pile of noble stones, And half a year a sculptor ...
When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring, To take the pay of ...
Now Eddie Malone got a swell grammyfone to draw all the trade to his store; An' sez he: "Come along ...
Humping it here in the dug-out, Sucking me black dudeen, I'd like to say in a general way, There's nothing ...
Oh darling Eric, why did you For my fond affection sue, And then with surgeons artful aid Transform yourself into ...
Jack would laugh an' joke all day; Never saw a lad so gay; Singin' like a medder lark, Loaded to ...
Grimy men with picks and shovels Who in darkness sweat unseen, Climb from out your lousy hovels, Build a palace ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore; ...
I don't think men of eighty odd Should let a surgeon operate; Better to pray for peace with God, And ...
We sleep in the sleep of ages, the bleak, barbarian pines; The gray moss drapes us like sages, and closer ...
A Belgian Priest-Soldier Speaks; GURR! You cochon! Stand and fight! Show your mettle! Snarl and bite! Spawn of an accursed ...
Past ash cans and alley cats, Fetid. overflowing gutters, Leprous lines of rancid flats Where the frowsy linen flutters; With ...
There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years ...
The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee ...
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
In the Northland there were three Pukka Pliers of the pen; Two of them had Fame in fee And were ...
We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure, Of men who played the game and lost or won; Of mad ...
On this festive first of May, Wending wistfully my way Three sad sights I saw today. The first was such ...
This is the pay-day up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down; There's money to burn in the ...
We couldn't sit and study for the law; The stagnation of a bank we couldn't stand; For our riot blood ...
He stared at me with sad, hurt eyes, That drab, untidy man; And though my clients I despise I do ...
Could Fate ordain a lot for me Beyond all human ills, I think that I would choose to be A ...
What are you doing here, Tom Thorne, on the white top-knot o' the world, Where the wind has the cut ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
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