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 ...
The little pink house is high on the hill And my heart is not what it used to be; It ...
Said the Door: "She came in With no shadow of sin; Turned the key in the lock, Slipped out of ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
Father drank himself to death,-- Quite enjoyed it. Urged to draw a sober breath He'd avoid it. 'Save your sympathy,' ...
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
In Mike Maloney's Nugget bar the hooch was flowin' free, An' One-eyed Mike was shakin' dice wi' Montreal Maree, An ...
There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
This is the song of the parson's son, as he squats in his shack alone, On the wild, weird nights, ...
When from my fumbling hand the tired pen falls, And in the twilight weary droops my head; While to my ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
When they shall close my careless eyes And look their last upon my face, I fear that some will say: ...
Although you deem it far from nice, And it perchance may hurt you, Let me suggest that cowardice Can masquerade ...
What man has not betrayed Some sacred trust? If haply you are made Of honest dust, Vaunt not of glory ...
When I am dead I will not care Forever more, If sky be radiantly fair Or tempest roar. If my ...
"Gather around me, children dear; The wind is high and the night is cold; Closer, little ones, snuggle near; Let's ...
When Chewed-ear Jenkins got hitched up to Guinneyveer McGee, His flowin' locks, ye recollect, wuz frivolous an' free; But in ...
You've heard of "Casey at The Bat," And "Casey's Tabble Dote"; But now it's time To write a rhyme Of ...
'Twas in a pub just off the Strand When I was in my cups, There passed a bloke with in ...
You want me to tell you a story, a yarn of the firin' line, Of our thin red kharki 'eroes, ...
And is it not a gesture grand To drink oneself to death? Oh sure 'tis I can understand, Being of ...
You've heard of Belching Billy, likewise known as Windy Bill, As punk a chunk of Yukon scum as ever robbed ...
It hurts my pride that I should be The issue of a night of lust; Yet even Bishops, you'll agree, ...
The meal was o'er, the lamp was lit, The family sat in its glow; The Mother never ceased to knit, ...
Behold! I'm old; my hair is white; My eighty years are in the offing, And sitting by the fire to-night ...
The Spirit of the Unborn Babe peered through the window-pane, Peered through the window-pane that glowed like beacon in the ...
Now Fireman Flynn met Hank the Finn where lights of Lust-land glow; "Let's leave," says he, "the lousy sea, and ...
"If you repent," the Parson said," Your sins will be forgiven. Aye, even on your dying bed You're not too ...
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