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Books : Literature & Fiction : Authors, A-Z : ( S ) : Service, Robert W.
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In 1904, the Canadian Bank of Commerce transferred teller Robert W. Service to the Yukon Territory. Soon, he was famous as the poet who chronicled the Klondike gold rush and the savage beauty of the frozen north. His tales of hard-bitten propectors and sourdoughs in "The Land God Forgot" make vivid, exciting reading. Here are all the brawling, colorful characters that Service immortalized, including One-Eyed Mike, Dangerous Dan McGrew, Pious Pete, Blasphemous Bill -- and, of course, the lady known as Lou.
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Robert Service, famous for his ballads of life in the Gold Rush years of the Yukon, among them The Shooting of Dangerous Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", painted pictures of artists, grisettes and models from the merry, tragic life of bohemian Paris of the early 1900s, inspired by the shadows of World War I as it fell across the city.Throughout these poems are expressions of the poet's own homespun philosophy. His verses offered gaiety, humour, mostalgia and pathos while his comments on women, life and death, ambition, success and failure, were all aimed to evoke quick response in the readers heart."
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Glorious illustrations bring to life this classic poem epitomizing the glory days of the Gold Rush.
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Songs of a Sourdough is Robert Service at his best! This is nature poetry at its finest. Here, the "Bard of the Yukon" uses picture words that place the reader right in the Yukon of old. As you read you can see the stranger stagger in to the Malamute saloon and feel the fifty-below gush of air until he closes the door behind him.
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Robert Service’s particular sense of the wild makes him stand out as a true North American poet. His fanciful tales of the rough-and-tumble Yukon have made him one of the most popular and frequently recited poets in the English-speaking world. Service’s poems are perfect for sharing with children and friends, reading alone, or best of all, reciting around the campfire.Dan McGrew, Sam McGee, and Other Great Service includes over fifty of Robert Service’s best-loved poems, while Mark Summers’ illustrations perfectly capture their mood.
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A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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One said: Thy life is thine to make or mar, To flicker feebly, or to soar, a star; It lies with thee -- the choice is thine, is thine, To hit the ties or drive thy auto-car.
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A narrative poem set in the Yukon describing the shoot-out in a saloon between a trapper and the man who stole his girl.
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This Volume Contains fifty-seven poems by the incomparable Robert Service, including: The Pines, The Spell of the Yukon, Over The Parapet, The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill, The Shooting of Dan McGrew, The Trial of 98, The Cremation of Sam McGee. etc...
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BALLADS OF A CHEECHAKO ROBERT W. SERVICE - To the Man of the High North MY rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming Ive drifted, silver-sailed, on seas of dream, Hearing afar the bells of Elfland chiming, Seeing the groves of Arcadie agleam. I was the thrall of Beauty that rejoices From peak snow-diademed to regal star Yet to mine aerie ever pierced the voices, The pregnant voices of the Things That Are. The Here, the Now, the vast Forlorn around us The gold-delirium, the ferine strife The lusts that lure us on, the hates that hound us Our red rags in the patch-work quilt of Life. TO THE MAN OF THE HIGH NORTH The nameless men who nameless rivers travel, And in strange valleys greet strange deaths alone The grim, intrepid ones who would unravel The mysteries that shroud the Polar Zone. These will I sing, and if one of you linger Over my pages in the Long, Long Night, And on some lone line lay a calloused finger, Saying Its human-true it hits me right Then will I count this loving toil well spent Then will I dream awhile content, content. CONTENTS TO THE MAN OF THE HIGH NORTH . My rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming. PAGE . . v MEN OF THE HIGH NORTH 15 Men of the High North, the wild sky is blazing. THE BALLAD OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS 18 One of the Down and Out thats me. Stare at me well, ay, stare THE BALLAD OF THE BLACK FOX SKIN . There was Claw-fingered Kitty and Windy Ike living the life of shame. 33 THE BALLAD OF PIOUS PETE 43 I tried to refine that neighbor of mine, honest to God, I did. -THE BALLAD OF BLASPHEMOUS BILL . I took a contract to bury the body of blasphemous Bill MacKie. . 50 THE BALLAD OF ONE-EYED MIKE.... 57 This is the tale that was told to me by the man with the crystal eye. vii viii CONTENTS PAGE THE BALLAD OF THE BRAND 62 Twas up in a land long famed for gold, where women were far and rare. THE BALLAD OF HARD-LUCK HENRY . Now wouldnt you expect to find a man an awful crank. . 71 THE BALLAD OF GUM-BOOT BEN .... 76 He was an old prospector with a vision bleared and dim. -THE MAN FROM ELDORADO 81 Hes the man from Eldorado, and hes just arrived in town. MY FRIENDS 90 The man above was a murderer, the man below was a thief. THE PROSPECTOR 94 I strolled up old Bonanza, where I staked in ninety-eight. THE BLACK SHEEP 100 Hark to the ewe that bore him. THE TELEGRAPH OPERATOR 105 I will not wash my face. THE WOOD-CUTTER 109 The sky is like an envelope. CONTENTS ix THE SONG OF THE MOUTH-ORGAN. . Im a homely little bit of tin and bone. PAGE . .114 THE TRAIL OF NINETY-EIGHT 118 Gold We leapt from our benches. Gold We sprang from our stools. CLANCY OF THE MOUNTED POLICE . In the little Crimson Manual its written plain and clear. . .128 LOST 138 Black is the sky, but the land is white. LENVOI 145 We talked of yesteryears, of trails and treasure. ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE YOUR LITTLE SOD-ROOFED CABINS WITH THE SNUGLY MOSS-CHINKED WALLS .... Frontispiece BEAUTY THAT REJOICES FROM PEAK SNOW-DIADEMED TO REGAL STAR 18 OER SOUNDLESS LAKES WHERE THE GRAYLING MAKES A RUSH AT THE CLUMSY FLY 32 THE VASTITUDES WHERE THE WORLD PROTRUDES THROUGH CLOUDS LIKE SEAS UP-SHOALED . . . 42 FOR ONCE YOUVE PANNED THE SPECKLED SAND, AND SEEN THE BONNY DUST THE BIG, BLUE, SILT-FREIGHTED YUKON .... 70 THE LONELY WAIF OF THE WOOD-CAMP .... 90 NOTHING BUT ROCK AND TREE NOTHING BUT WOOD AND STONE 104 WE TIGHTENED OUR GIRTHS AND OUR PACK-STRAPS WE LINKED ON THE HUMAN CHAIN . . . .120 THERE WAS THE RAGE OF THE RAPIDS . . . .138 xi 56
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Book One:Songs of a Sun-Lover Book Two:Rhymes of a Roughneck Book Three:Lyrics of a Low Brow Book Four:Rhymes of a Rebel Book Five:Songs for My Supper
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Volume of poems of the high north country. Antiquarian volume with litho b&w photos.
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