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 ...
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
All day long when the shells sail over I stand at the sandbags and take my chance; But at night, ...
To have a business of my own With toil and tears, I wore my fingers to the bone For weary ...
I bought a young and lovely bride, Paying her father gold; Lamblike she rested by my side, As cold as ...
O God, take the sun from the sky! It's burning me, scorching me up. God, can't You hear my cry? ...
The woes of men beyond my ken Mean nothing more to me. Behold my world, and Eden hurled From Heaven ...
We have no aspiration vain For paradise Utopian, And here in our sun-happy Spain, Though man exploit his fellow man, ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
He had the grocer's counter-stoop, That little man so grey and neat; His moustache had a doleful droop, He hailed ...
The Sergeant of a Highland Reg- -Iment was drilling of his men; With temper notably on edge He blest them ...
I call myself a Tranquilist; With deep detachment I exist, From friction free; While others court the gilded throng And ...
This is the song of the parson's son, as he squats in his shack alone, On the wild, weird nights, ...
We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me; Fightin' wiv our bayonets was we; Fightin' 'ard as 'ell we was, ...
They asked the Bard of Ayr to dine; The banquet hall was fit and fine, With gracing it a Lord; ...
'A shilling's worth of quinine, please,' The customer demanded. The druggist went down on his knees And from a cupboard ...
Three score and ten, the psalmist saith, And half my course is well-nigh run; I've had my flout at dusty ...
First Ghost To sepulcher my mouldy bones I bough a pile of noble stones, And half a year a sculptor ...
When the boys come out from Lac Labiche in the lure of the early Spring, To take the pay of ...
Now Eddie Malone got a swell grammyfone to draw all the trade to his store; An' sez he: "Come along ...
Humping it here in the dug-out, Sucking me black dudeen, I'd like to say in a general way, There's nothing ...
Oh darling Eric, why did you For my fond affection sue, And then with surgeons artful aid Transform yourself into ...
Jack would laugh an' joke all day; Never saw a lad so gay; Singin' like a medder lark, Loaded to ...
Grimy men with picks and shovels Who in darkness sweat unseen, Climb from out your lousy hovels, Build a palace ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore; ...
I don't think men of eighty odd Should let a surgeon operate; Better to pray for peace with God, And ...
We sleep in the sleep of ages, the bleak, barbarian pines; The gray moss drapes us like sages, and closer ...
A Belgian Priest-Soldier Speaks; GURR! You cochon! Stand and fight! Show your mettle! Snarl and bite! Spawn of an accursed ...
Past ash cans and alley cats, Fetid. overflowing gutters, Leprous lines of rancid flats Where the frowsy linen flutters; With ...
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