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Robert W. Service was a famous british-canadian poet and writer who has often been called the Bard of the Yukon. He is best known for his poems The Shooting of Dan McGrew and The Cremation of Sam McGee, from his first book, Songs of a Sourdough. Robert Service wrote the most commercially successful poetry of the century.
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Service was 41 when the First World War broke out: he briefly covered the war for the Toronto Star then worked as a stretcher-bearer and ambulance driver with the American Red Cross until his health broke. Convalescing in Paris he wrote a new book of mainly war poetry, Rhymes of a Red Cross Man, in 1916. The book was dedicated to his brother.
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Robert W. Service, (born January 16, 1874, Preston, Lancashire, England—died September 11, 1958, Lancieux, France), popular verse writer called "the Canadian Kipling" for rollicking ballads of the "frozen North," notably "The Shooting of Dan McGrew."
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The Spell of the Yukon By Robert W. Service I wanted the gold, and I sought it; I scrabbled and mucked like a slave. Was it famine or scurvy — I fought it; I hurled my youth into a grave. I wanted the gold, and I got it — Came out with a fortune last fall, — Yet somehow life's not what I thought it, And somehow the gold isn't all. No!
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By Robert W. Service Lone amid the café's cheer, Sad of heart am I to-night; Dolefully I drink my beer, But no single line I write. There's the wretched rent to pay, Yet I glower at pen and ink: Oh, inspire me, Muse, I pray, It is later than you think! Hello! there's a pregnant phrase. Bravo! let me write it down; Hold it with a hopeful gaze,
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'Death in the Arctic' is considered one of Robert Service's better poems, showcasing his ability to capture the harsh realities of life in the Arctic and the struggles faced by those who lived and worked there.
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A prolific writer and poet, Service published numerous collections of poetry during his lifetime, including Songs of a Sourdough or Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (1907), which went into ten printings its first year, Ballad of a Cheechako (1909) and Ballads of a Bohemian (1921), as well as two autobiographies and six novels.
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Robert William Service (16 January 1874 - 11 September 1958) was a British-Canadian poet and writer, often called "the Bard of the Yukon ". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty.
The Outlaw Poem by Robert Service
The complete poems of Robert Service by Service, Robert W. (Robert William), 1874-1958. Publication date 1950 Publisher New York : Dodd, Mead Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; americana Contributor Internet Archive Language English. xvi, 735 p. ; 21 cm Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2010-03-30 20:41:46 Bookplateleaf
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Famous poet / Robert W Service 1874-1958 • Ranked #52 in the top 500 poets Robert William Service was born in Lancashire, England on January 16, 1874 to a Scottish bank clerk and the daughter of an English factory owner. He was raised by his aunts in a small town in Ayrshire.
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Robert William Service Poems Hit Title Date Added 1. The Cremation Of Sam Mcgee ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ There are strange things done in the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold; The Arctic trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold;. Read Poem 2. "?" ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ If you had the choice of two women to wed,
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The Men That Don't Fit In By Robert W. Service There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't stay still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and they rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.
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Robert William Service (January 16, 1874 - September 11, 1958) was a poet and writer who has often been called "the Bard of the Yukon". Service is best known for his poems "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" and "The Cremation of Sam McGee", from his first book, Songs of a Sourdough (1907; also published as The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses).
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I cremated Sam McGee. Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee, where the cotton blooms and blows. Why he left his home in the South to roam 'round the Pole, God only knows. He was always cold, but the land of gold seemed to hold him like a spell; Though he'd often say in his homely way that "he'd sooner live in hell."
