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 ...
They asked the Bard of Ayr to dine; The banquet hall was fit and fine, With gracing it a Lord; ...
That scathing word I used in scorn (Though half a century ago) Comes back to me this April morn, Like ...
We sleep in the sleep of ages, the bleak, barbarian pines; The gray moss drapes us like sages, and closer ...
The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee ...
To be a bony feed Sourdough You must, by Yukon Law, Have killed a moose, And robbed a sluice, AND ...
You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine, Your harps and your tabors and cymbals and a', But ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty, And she hasn't a friend and she hasn't a home, ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land, Where all except the flag is strange ...
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the road from Mons to Wipers (I've 'ammered out this ditty with me bruised and ...
They turned him loose; he bowed his head, A felon, bent and grey. His face was even as the Dead, ...
I am a Day . . . My sky is grey, My wind is wild, My sea high-piled: In year ...
In Mike Maloney's Nugget bar the hooch was flowin' free, An' One-eyed Mike was shakin' dice wi' Montreal Maree, An ...
He stared at me with sad, hurt eyes, That drab, untidy man; And though my clients I despise I do ...
O'er the dark pines she sees the silver moon, And in the west, all tremulous, a star; And soothing sweet ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
I bought my little grandchild Ann A bright balloon, And I was such a happy man To hear her croon. ...
It was the steamer Alice May that sailed the Yukon foam. And touched in every river camp from Dawson down ...
For five and twenty years I've run A famous train; But now my spell of speed is done, No more ...
A father's pride I used to know, A mother's love was mine; For swinish husks I let them go, And ...
I sought Him on the purple seas, I sought Him on the peaks aflame; Amid the gloom of giant trees ...
"The aristocratic ne'er-do-well in Canada frequently finds his way into the ranks of the Royal North-West Mounted Police." -- Extract. ...
Since much has been your mirth And fair your fate, Friend, leave your lot of earth Less desolate. With frailing ...
This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye, As I smoked my ...
"Black is the sky, but the land is white-- (O the wind, the snow and the storm!)-- Father, where is ...
I know a garden where the lilies gleam, And one who lingers in the sunshine there; She is than white-stoled ...
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