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Book: Rhymes of a Rolling Stone

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  • The Blind And The Dead
    She lay like a saint on her copper couch;
    Like an angel asleep she lay,
    28 lines, 2 comments
  • The Cow-Juice Cure
    The clover was in blossom, an' the year was at the June,
    When Flap-jack Billy hit the town, likewise O'Flynn's saloon.
    51 lines, 1 comment
  • The Wanderlust
    The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas,
    Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth;
    76 lines, 1 comment
  • The Gramaphone At Fond-Du-Lac
    Then Dogrib, an' Slave, an' Yellow-knife brave, an' Cree in his dinky canoe,
    Confluated near, to see an' to hear Ed's grammyfone make its dayboo.
    37 lines, 1 comment
  • The Rover
    Oh, how good it is to be
    Foot-loose and heart-free!
    34 lines, 1 comment
  • The Headliner And The Breadliner
    Moko, the Educated Ape is here,
    The pet of vaudeville, so the posters say,
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • The Quitter
    When you're lost in the Wild, and you're scared as a child,
    And Death looks you bang in the eye,
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • The Idealist
    Oh you who have daring deeds to tell!
    And you who have felt Ambition's spell!
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • The Soldier Of Fortune
    "Deny your God!" they ringed me with their spears;
    Blood-crazed were they, and reeking from the strife;
    88 lines, 2 comments
  • The Junior God
    The Junior God looked from his place
    In the conning towers of heaven,
    32 lines, 1 comment
  • To Sunnydale
    There lies the trail to Sunnydale,
    Amid the lure of laughter.
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • The Land Of Beyond
    Have ever you heard of the Land of Beyond,
    That dreams at the gates of the day?
    24 lines, 1 comment
  • The Return
    They turned him loose; he bowed his head,
    A felon, bent and grey.
    21 lines, 1 comment
  • The Lost Master
    No monument your gift shall be,
    No column in the Hall of Fame;
    27 lines, 1 comment
  • The Sceptic
    My Father Christmas passed away
    When I was barely seven.
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • The Lunger
    Jack would laugh an' joke all day;
    Never saw a lad so gay;
    86 lines, 1 comment
  • The Trapper's Christmas Eve
    It's mighty lonesome-like and drear.
    Above the Wild the moon rides high,
    56 lines, 2 comments
  • The Mountain And The Lake
    I know a mountain thrilling to the stars,
    Peerless and pure, and pinnacled with snow;
    22 lines, 1 comment
  • The World's All Right
    Be honest, kindly, simple, true;
    Seek good in all, scorn but pretence;
    68 lines, 1 comment
  • The Nostomaniac
    On the ragged edge of the world I'll roam,
    And the home of the wolf shall be my home,
    72 lines, 1 comment
  • While The Bannock Bakes
    Light up your pipe again, old chum, and sit awhile with me;
    I've got to watch the bannock bake -- how restful is the air!
    97 lines, 1 comment
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