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 ...
Said the Door: "She came in With no shadow of sin; Turned the key in the lock, Slipped out of ...
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
We have no aspiration vain For paradise Utopian, And here in our sun-happy Spain, Though man exploit his fellow man, ...
We was in a crump-'ole, 'im and me; Fightin' wiv our bayonets was we; Fightin' 'ard as 'ell we was, ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
I'll wait until my money's gone Before I take the sleeping pills; Then when they find me in the dawn, ...
Pedlar's coming down the street, Housewives beat a swift retreat. Don't you answer to the bell; Heedless what she has ...
I draw sweet air Deeply and long, As pure as prayer, As sweet as song. Where lilies glow And roses ...
It was the steamer Alice May that sailed the Yukon foam. And touched in every river camp from Dawson down ...
You talk o' prayer an' such - Well, I jest don't know how; I guess I got as much Religion ...
"Hae ye heard whit ma auld mither's postit tae me? It fair maks me hamesick," says Private McPhee. "And whit ...
God dwells in you; in pride and shame, In all you do to blight or bless; In all you are ...
A-sitttin' on a cracker box an' spittin' in the stove, I took a sudden notion that I'd kindo' like to ...
On the tide you ride head high, Like a whale 'mid little fishes; I should envy you as I Help ...
I'm sitting by the fire tonight, The cat purrs on the rug; The room's abrim with rosy light, Suavely soft ...
Her smile ineffably is sweet, Devinely she is slim; Yet oh how weary are her feet, How aches her every ...
When I am dead I will not care Forever more, If sky be radiantly fair Or tempest roar. If my ...
The sky is like an envelope, One of those blue official things; And, sealing it, to mock our hope, The ...
Now wouldn't you expect to find a man an awful crank That's staked out nigh three hundred claims, and every ...
"The North has got him." --Yukonism. I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did. I ...
So crystal clear it is to me That when I die I cease to be, All else seems sheer stupidity. ...
There's a cry from out the loneliness -- oh, listen, Honey, listen! Do you hear it, do you fear it, ...
"Black is the sky, but the land is white-- (O the wind, the snow and the storm!)-- Father, where is ...
With peace and rest And wisdom sage, Ripeness is best Of every age. With hands that fold In pensive prayer, ...
I never thought that Bill could say A proper prayer; 'Twas more in his hard-bitten way To cuss and swear; ...
(France, August first, 1914) Far and near, high and clear, Hark to the call of War! Over the gorse and ...
Of course you've heard of the Nancy Lee, and how she sailed away On her famous quest of the Arctic ...
. . . So I walked among the willows very quietly all night; There was no moon at all, at ...
This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: "Send not your foolish and feeble; send ...
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