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 ...
In Mike Maloney's Nugget bar the hooch was flowin' free, An' One-eyed Mike was shakin' dice wi' Montreal Maree, An ...
There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years ...
I There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame, When unto them in the Long, Long ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
This is the song of the parson's son, as he squats in his shack alone, On the wild, weird nights, ...
When from my fumbling hand the tired pen falls, And in the twilight weary droops my head; While to my ...
'Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare, Tellus, the smith, had taken ...
The little pink house is high on the hill And my heart is not what it used to be; It ...
Said the Door: "She came in With no shadow of sin; Turned the key in the lock, Slipped out of ...
Said Hongray de la Glaciere unto his proud Papa: "I want to take a wife mon Père," The Marquis laughed: ...
Father drank himself to death,-- Quite enjoyed it. Urged to draw a sober breath He'd avoid it. 'Save your sympathy,' ...
A Life Tragedy A pistol shot rings round and round the world; In pitiful defeat a warrior lies. A last ...
I dreamed I saw three demi-gods who in a cafe sat, And one was small and crapulous, and one was ...
I've sung of Violet de Vere, that slinky, minky dame, Of Gertie of the Diamond Tooth, and Touch-the-Button Nell, And ...
'Twas in the bleary middle of the hard-boiled Arctic night, I was lonesome as a loon, so if you can, ...
The mule-skinner was Bill Jerome, the passengers were three; Two tinhorns from the dives of Nome, and Father Tim McGee. ...
I'm dead. Officially I'm dead. Their hope is past. How long I stood as missing! Now, at last I'm dead. ...
Nurse, won't you let him in? He's barkin' an' scratchen' the door, Makin' so dreffel a din I jest can't ...
A wild and woeful race he ran Of lust and sin by land and sea; Until, abhorred of God and ...
Light up your pipe again, old chum, and sit awhile with me; I've got to watch the bannock bake -- ...
The poppies gleamed like bloody pools through cotton-woolly mist; The Captain kept a-lookin' at the watch upon his wrist; And ...
Oh Julie Claire was very fair, Yet generous as well, And many a lad of metal had A saucy tale ...
He's the man from Eldorado, and he's just arrived in town, In moccasins and oily buckskin shirt. He's gaunt as ...
I burned my fingers on the stove And wept with bitterness; But poor old Auntie Maggie strove To comfort my ...
The harridan who holds the inn At which I toss a pot, Is old and uglier than sin,-- I'm glad ...
To buy for school a copy-book I asked my Dad for two-pence; He gave it with a gentle look, Although ...
Me and Ed and a stretcher Out on the nootral ground. (If there's one dead corpse, I'll betcher There's a ...
When they shall close my careless eyes And look their last upon my face, I fear that some will say: ...
Although you deem it far from nice, And it perchance may hurt you, Let me suggest that cowardice Can masquerade ...
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