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 ...
My Lady is dancing so lightly, The belle of the Embassy Ball; I lied as I kissed her politely, And ...
What would I choose to see when I To this bright earth shall bid good-bye? When fades forever from my ...
O'er the dark pines she sees the silver moon, And in the west, all tremulous, a star; And soothing sweet ...
Come out, O Little Moccasins, and frolic on the snow! Come out, O tiny beaded feet, and twinkle in the ...
An olive fire's a lovely thing; Somehow it makes me think of Spring As in my grate it over-spills With ...
Grimy men with picks and shovels Who in darkness sweat unseen, Climb from out your lousy hovels, Build a palace ...
I Let others sing of Empire and of pomp beyond the sea, A song of Little Puddleton is good enough ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
What are you doing here, Tom Thorne, on the white top-knot o' the world, Where the wind has the cut ...
His frown brought terror to his foes, But now in twilight of his days The pure perfection of a rose ...
I am a Day . . . My sky is grey, My wind is wild, My sea high-piled: In year ...
I am the Cannon King, behold! I perish on a throne of gold. With forest far and turret high, Renowned ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
Here is my Garret up five flights of stairs; Here's where I deal in dreams and ply in fancies, Here ...
I cannot flap a flag Or beat a drum; Behind the mob I lag With larynx dumb; Alas! I fear ...
Oh you who have daring deeds to tell! And you who have felt Ambition's spell! Have you heard of the ...
Her smile ineffably is sweet, Devinely she is slim; Yet oh how weary are her feet, How aches her every ...
Till midnight her needle she plied To finish her pretty pink dress; "Oh, bless you, my darling," she sighed; "I ...
You've heard of Belching Billy, likewise known as Windy Bill, As punk a chunk of Yukon scum as ever robbed ...
One said: Thy life is thine to make or mar, To flicker feebly, or to soar, a star; It lies ...
The cruel war was over -- oh, the triumph was so sweet! We watched the troops returning, through our tears; ...
A gaunt and hoary slab of stone I found in desert place, And wondered why it lay alone In that ...
Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them, Singing all together with their throats bronze-bare; ...
Is it not strange? A year ago to-day, With scarce a thought beyond the hum-drum round, I did my decent ...
Alphonso Rex who died in Rome Was quite a fistful as a kid; For when I visited his home, That ...
I The Moon is like a ping-pong ball; I lean against the orchard wall, And see it soar into the ...
He gives me such a bold and curious look, That young American across the way, As if he'd like to ...
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