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 ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
"Flowers, only flowers -- bring me dainty posies, Blossoms for forgetfulness," that was all he said; So we sacked our ...
A Frenchman and an Englishman Resolved to fight a duel, And hit upon a savage plan, Because their hate was ...
That scathing word I used in scorn (Though half a century ago) Comes back to me this April morn, Like ...
First Ghost To sepulcher my mouldy bones I bough a pile of noble stones, And half a year a sculptor ...
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 ...
To have a business of my own With toil and tears, I wore my fingers to the bone For weary ...
This is the song of the parson's son, as he squats in his shack alone, On the wild, weird nights, ...
When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring, To take the pay of ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
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, ...
"You're bloody right - I was a Red," The Man from Cook's morosely said. And if our chaps had won ...
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
Pedlar's coming down the street, Housewives beat a swift retreat. Don't you answer to the bell; Heedless what she has ...
In Mike Maloney's Nugget bar the hooch was flowin' free, An' One-eyed Mike was shakin' dice wi' Montreal Maree, An ...
From wrath-red dawn to wrath-red dawn, The guns have brayed without abate; And now the sick sun looks upon The ...
An angel was tired of heaven, as he lounged in the golden street; His halo was tilted sideways, and his ...
I had a dream, a dream of dread: I thought that horror held the house; A burglar bent above my ...
A father's pride I used to know, A mother's love was mine; For swinish husks I let them go, And ...
Hot digitty dog! Now, ain't it queer, I've been abroad for over a year; Seen a helluva lot since then, ...
You never saw a cat with wings, I'll bet a dollar -- well, I did; 'Twas one of those fantastic ...
Out of the night a crash, A roar, a rampart of light; A flame that leaped like a lash, Searing ...
Mumsie and Dad are raven dark And I am lily blonde. ''Tis strange,' I once heard nurse remark, 'You do ...
Behold! the Spanish flag they're raising Before the Palace courtyard gate; To watch its progress bold and blazing Two hundred ...
Jerry MacMullen, the millionaire, Driving a red-meat bus out there -- How did he win his Croix de Guerre? Bless ...
Of course you've heard of the Nancy Lee, and how she sailed away On her famous quest of the Arctic ...
Because my eyes were none to bright Strong spectacles I bought, And lo! there sprang into my sight A life ...
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