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 ...
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring, To take the pay of ...
O God, take the sun from the sky! It's burning me, scorching me up. God, can't You hear my cry? ...
When from my fumbling hand the tired pen falls, And in the twilight weary droops my head; While to my ...
In the Northland there were three Pukka Pliers of the pen; Two of them had Fame in fee And were ...
"Flowers, only flowers -- bring me dainty posies, Blossoms for forgetfulness," that was all he said; So we sacked our ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
I am the Cannon King, behold! I perish on a throne of gold. With forest far and turret high, Renowned ...
I call myself a Tranquilist; With deep detachment I exist, From friction free; While others court the gilded throng And ...
A Belgian Priest-Soldier Speaks; GURR! You cochon! Stand and fight! Show your mettle! Snarl and bite! Spawn of an accursed ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
I never could imagine God: I don't suppose I ever will. Beside His altar fire I nod With senile drowsiness ...
This is the pay-day up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down; There's money to burn in the ...
Though Virtue hurt you Vice is nice; Aye, Parson says it's wrong, Yet for my pleasing I'll suffice With Women, ...
A Frenchman and an Englishman Resolved to fight a duel, And hit upon a savage plan, Because their hate was ...
What are you doing here, Tom Thorne, on the white top-knot o' the world, Where the wind has the cut ...
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
Humping it here in the dug-out, Sucking me black dudeen, I'd like to say in a general way, There's nothing ...
I've wearied of so many things Adored in youthful days; Music no more my spirit wings, E'en when Master play. ...
I bought a young and lovely bride, Paying her father gold; Lamblike she rested by my side, As cold as ...
The cow-moose comes to water, and the beaver's overbold, The net is in the eddy of the stream; The teepee ...
There's a drip of honeysuckle in the deep green lane; There's old Martin jogging homeward on his worn old wain; ...
Could Fate ordain a lot for me Beyond all human ills, I think that I would choose to be A ...
I look into the aching womb of night; I look across the mist that masks the dead; The moon is ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me; Fightin' wiv our bayonets was we; Fightin' 'ard as 'ell we was, ...
I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes In weary, woeful, waiting times; In doleful hours of battle-din, Ere yet they ...
There where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon, There where the sullen sun-dogs glare in the snow-bright, ...
God's truth! these be the bitter times. In vain I sing my sheaf of rhymes, And hold my battered hat ...
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