Fighting Mac – A Life Tragedy (Robert W Service Poems)
A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies.A last defiance to dark Death is ...
A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies.A last defiance to dark Death is ...
A Life TragedyA pistol shot rings round and round the world;In pitiful defeat a warrior lies.A last defiance to dark ...
Through sorrow at the poor-spiritedness of the Afghans,I have abandoned greatness, and taken meanness in hand.Had this much even been ...
As I look on I am amazedAt this worlds denizens,Just seeing what these dogs will doTo satisfy the flesh.Such dealing ...
That one's blood should be upon one's own head, is, truly, some cause of concern;Still, to think that I still ...
The Afghans have gone mad about posts and dignities;But God preserve me, from such plagues and troubles!Unto whom belongeth the ...
It is false that aught of evil or misfortune proceedeth from the stars-All good and evil-weal and woe-emanate from the ...
The Afghans are far superior to the Mughals at the sword,Were but the Afghans, in intellect, a little discreet,If the ...
Verily, the Afghans are deficient in sense and understanding-They are the tail-cut curs of the butchers' slaughter-house.They have played away ...
Translated From the Pus'hto of Muhammad Din Tilai (Afghans, nineteenth century).Come, my beloved! And I say again: Come, my beloved!The ...
Translated From the Pus'hto of Mirza Rahchan Kayil (Afghans, nineteenth century)When you lie with me and love me,You give me ...
Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, pride of Bow Bazaar, Owner of a native press, "Barrishter-at-Lar," Waited on the Government with a claim ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
'Twas in the year of 1878, and. the winter had set in, Lord Roberts and the British Army their march ...
'Twas at the disastrous battle of Maiwand, in Afghanistan, Where the Berkshires were massacred to the last man; On the ...
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