The Mystic Band (Holman Francis Day Poems)
I've joined the orders that came our way,- Been sort of a "jiner," as one would say, -And I've bucked ...
I've joined the orders that came our way,- Been sort of a "jiner," as one would say, -And I've bucked ...
Parson, I'm a maverick, just runnin' loose an' grazin',Eatin' where's th' greenest grass an' drinkin' where I choose;Had to rustle ...
"Young soldier, what will you beWhen it's all over?""I shall get out and across the sea,Where land's cheap and a ...
By jove it's hot on the track today, my flannel is soaked with sweat.I think I'll sit in the shade ...
Ever heard th' black watch story?Ask th' boys o' our old crew;There's sea yarns a sight more gory, But there ...
An old western town lay asleep in the sunOf a long summer day that was then almost done.The shadows were ...
There was an agile sailor ladWho longed to know the bushSo with his swag and billy-canHe said he'd make a ...
You are jest an old waddy that's been everywhere.You've about held your own and done more than your share.You wind ...
The cause of all the troubleWas McCabe, the jackeroo,Who had ordered what, facetiously,He'd christened "Wild Stuff Stew"He had shot a ...
They sing of the puncher--that knight of the range who rounds up the bellerin' steer;Who rides at the head of ...
She was the one, the test case the alpha, the first who pushed the envelope bucked the system went her ...
Until tonight they were separate specialties, different stories, the best of their own worst. Riding my warm cabin home, I ...
When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring, To take the pay of ...
It was the steamer Alice May that sailed the Yukon foam. And touched in every river camp from Dawson down ...
With barbwire hooch they filled him full, Till he was drunker than all hell, And then they peddled him the ...
(With apologies to the singer of the "Song of the Banjo".) I'm a homely little bit of tin and bone; ...
The black bull bellowed before the sea. The sea, till that day orderly, Hove up against Bendylaw. The queen in ...
'TWAS to a small, up-country town, When we were boys at school, There came a circus with a clown, Likewise ...
Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just ...
He made a line on the blackboard, one bold stroke from right to left diagonally downward and stood back to ...
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