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 ...
If you had the choice of two women to wed,(Though of course the idea is quite absurd)And the first from ...
The sunshine seeks my little roomTo tell me Paris streets are gay;That children cry the lily bloomAll up and down ...
The little pink house is high on the hill And my heart is not what it used to be; It ...
Men have navels more or less; Some are neat, some not Being fat I must confess Mine is far from ...
(The French "Tommy"). Oh, some of us lolled in the chateau, And some of us slinked in the slum; But ...
There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; She was old, so old, yet her years ...
My lead dog Mike was like a bear; I reckon he was grizzly bred, For when he reared up in ...
'Twas in a village in Lorraine Whose name I quite forget, I found I needfully was fain To buy a ...
Being a writer I receive Sweet screeds from folk of every land; Some are so weird you'd scarce believe, And ...
Moko, the Educated Ape is here, The pet of vaudeville, so the posters say, And every night the gaping people ...
If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land, Where all except the flag is strange ...
A mattock high he swung; I watched him at his toil; With never gulp of lung He gashed the ruddy ...
"Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears; Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife; Hell-hot their hate, ...
The Sergeant of a Highland Reg- -Iment was drilling of his men; With temper notably on edge He blest them ...
We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure, Of men who played the game and lost or won; Of mad ...
'Come, see,' said he, 'my four-foot shelf, A forty volume row; And every one I wrote myself, But that, of ...
In the moonless, misty night, with my little pipe alight, I am sitting by the camp-fire's fading cheer; Oh, the ...
You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine, Your harps and your tabors and cymbals and a', But ...
An Ancient gaffer once I knew, Who puffed a pipe and tossed a tankard; He claimed a hundred years or ...
The Countess sprawled beside the sea As naked a she well could be; Indeed her only garments were A "G" ...
When first I left Blighty they gave me a bay'nit And told me it 'ad to be smothered wiv gore; ...
When you have sailed the seven seas And looped the ends of earth, You'll long at last for slippered ease ...
They turned him loose; he bowed his head, A felon, bent and grey. His face was even as the Dead, ...
What would I choose to see when I To this bright earth shall bid good-bye? When fades forever from my ...
O God, take the sun from the sky! It's burning me, scorching me up. God, can't You hear my cry? ...
Grimy men with picks and shovels Who in darkness sweat unseen, Climb from out your lousy hovels, Build a palace ...
At dawn of day the white land lay all gruesome-like and grim, When Bill Mc'Gee he says to me: "We've ...
He had the grocer's counter-stoop, That little man so grey and neat; His moustache had a doleful droop, He hailed ...
What are you doing here, Tom Thorne, on the white top-knot o' the world, Where the wind has the cut ...
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