The Best of Robert Service

by Robert W. Service

Overview

This new and revised edition of poems about the men and women of the North features the most loved ballads by Robert Service, and is illustrated with lively art by Marilen Van Nimwegen. While living in Whitehorse, Robert Service wrote The Cremation of Sam McGee, and other well-known poems. He wrote and published into his mid-eighties. He was quoted as saying, I just go for a walk and come back with a poem in my pocket.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780888395450
Publisher:	Hancock House Publishers
Publication date:	10/01/2003
Series:	Best of Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England in 1874, the son of lower middle class parents, the eldest of what would be ten children. When he was four, the family moved to Glasgow, Scotland and he and a brother were taken to live with his paternal grandparents and four aunts nearby in Kilwinning. In school, he was known for getting into scrapes, but mostly was a solitary and imaginative child, immersing himself in books. At a celebratory meal for his sixth birthday, he always remembered surprising the adults and even himself, with two spontaneous rhyming verses in the form of a grace, foretelling of his future and his talents.

Table of Contents

The Absin the Drinkers
Ant Hill
Athabaska Dick
The Ballad of Blasphemous Bill
The Ballad of Casey's Billy-Goat
The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike
The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin
The Battle of the Bulge
Bill the Bomber
The Bohemian
Britannica
Brother Jim
The Bruiser
The Butcher
Clancy of the Mounted Police
Compensation Pete
Contentment
The Cremation of Sam McGee
Dark Pine
Dauntless Quest
Dirt
Duello
Dyspeptic Clerk
L'escargot D'or
Finistere
Funk
God's Skallywags
Going Home
Grandad
The Harpy
The Hat
Heart O' the North
Hobo
I Believe
Inspiration
It Is Later than You Think
The Joy of Being Poor
Just Think
The Land of Beyond
Laughter
The Law of the Yukon
The Little Old Log Cabin
The Logger
The Lost Master
Making Good
The March of the Dead
Maternity
Men of the High North
The Men that Don't Fit in
Moderation
Mongrel
The Mountain and the Lake
Muquet
My Friends
My Future
My Highland Home
My Job
My Madonna
My Masterpiece
My Piney Wood
Nature Man
Normandy Peasant
Odette
An Olive Fire
The Ordinary Man
The Outlaw
Pantheist
Premonition
The Prospector
Pullman Porter
The Quest
The Quitter
The Reckoning
Repentance
Resentment
Riviera Honeymoon
The Rover
Security
Sentimental Shark
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
A Song of Success
The Song of the Mouth-Organ
The Song of the Wage-Slave
The Spell of the Yukon
The Squaw Man
Stamp Collector
Take It Easy
Tea on the Lawn
The Three Voices
The Tramps
The Twins
The Under-Dogs
Unforgotten
Victory Stuff
The Wanderlust
The Wedding Ring
While the Bannock Bakes
The Woman and the Angel
The Wonderer
Yellow
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