The Poems of Robert W. Service

Between 1907 and 1956, Robert Service wrote over 1,000 poems, as well as six novels and several other books. Here is a sampling of his poems.

A Sourdough Story
Bessie’s Boil
Clancy of the Mounted Police
Comfort
Fighting Mac
Goodbye Little Cabin
Grandad
Grin
L'Envoi
Lost
Music in the Bush
My Friends
My Madonna
New Year's Eve
Premonition
The Ballad of Gum-Boot Ben
The Ballad of Hard-Luck Henry
The Ballad of One Eyed Mike
The Ballad of Pious Pete
The Ballad of the Black Fox Skin
The Ballad of the Brand
The Ballad of the Northern Lights
The Black Sheep
The Call of the Wild
The Contented Man
The Cremation of Sam McGee
The Golden Days
The Harpy
The Heart of the Sourdough
The Land God Forgot
The Law of the Yukon
The Little Old Log Cabin
The Lone Trail
The Low-Down White
The Lure of Little Voices
The Man from Eldorado
The Man of the High North
The March of the Dead
The Men That Don't Fit In
The Parson's Son
The Pines
The Prospector
The Quitter
The Reconing
The Rhyme of the Remittance Man
The Rhyme of the Restless Ones
The Shooting of Dan McGrew
The Song of the Mouth-Organ
The Song of the Wage-Slave
The Spell of the Yukon
The Telegraph Operator
The Three Voices
The Trail of Ninety-Eight
The Tramps
The Woman and the Angel
The Wood-Cutter
The Younger Son
Unforgotten

Want more? There are many Robert Service sites on the Web, the largest being The Robert W. Service section of ExploreNorth, and The Original Home Page of Robert W. Service.