The Soldier Of Fortune (Robert William Service Poems)
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
We sleep in the sleep of ages, the bleak, barbarian pines; The gray moss drapes us like sages, and closer ...
He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town, In moccasins and oily buckskin shirt. He's gaunt as ...
When a man gits on his uppers in a hard-pan sort of town, An' he ain't got nothin' comin' an' ...
You never saw a cat with wings, I'll bet a dollar -- well, I did; 'Twas one of those fantastic ...
The sky is like an envelope, One of those blue official things; And, sealing it, to mock our hope, The ...
He was an old prospector with a vision bleared and dim. He asked me for a grubstake, and the same ...
That Barret, the painter of pictures, what feeling for color he had! And Fanning, the maker of music, such melodies ...
Alphonso Rex who died in Rome Was quite a fistful as a kid; For when I visited his home, That ...
He gives me such a bold and curious look, That young American across the way, As if he'd like to ...
Black ants have made a musty mound My purple pine tree under, And I am often to be found, Regarding ...
I strolled up old Bonanza, where I staked in ninety-eight, A-purpose to revisit the old claim. I kept thinking mighty ...
Of course you've heard of the Nancy Lee, and how she sailed away On her famous quest of the Arctic ...
On the ragged edge of the world I'll roam, And the home of the wolf shall be my home, And ...
'Twas in the bleary middle of the hard-boiled Arctic night, I was lonesome as a loon, so if you can, ...
This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: "Send not your foolish and feeble; send ...
Oh, it's pleasant sitting here, Seeing all the people pass; You beside your bock of beer, I behind my demi-tasse. ...
A-sitttin' on a cracker box an' spittin' in the stove, I took a sudden notion that I'd kindo' like to ...
Have ever you heard of the Land of Beyond, That dreams at the gates of the day? Alluring it lies ...
The same old sprint in the morning, boys, to the same old din and smut; Chained all day to the ...
Some inherit manly beauty, Some come into worldly wealth; Some have lofty sense of duty, Others boast exultant health. Though ...
In the dark and damp of the alley cold, Lay the Christmas tree that hadn't been sold; By a shopman ...
I stood before a candy shop Which with a Christmas radiance shone; I saw my parents pass and stop To ...
How grand the human race would be If every man would wear a kilt, A flirt of Tartan finery, Instead ...
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