"Robert Service was born in England in 1874. After spending his childhood in Scotland he came to Canada and there commenced the life of wandering and adventure which has given birth to songs, rhymes, ballads and poems that have spread over the whole world.
His vagabond career, bounded by Alaska and Turkey, by England and Mexico, has been such a diversity of add jobes in so many places than an actual chronicle of it is well nigh impossible.
Mr. Service, who escaped to America from the German invasion of France, later returned to that country where he spent the remainder of his days.
In his poetry, however, he still lives as a vagabond in the hearts of his many readers. He has caught the spirit of wanderlust latent in every one of us and his verses will live on forever."
Service, Robert W. The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916. Print.
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Songs of a sourdough
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Ballads of a Cheechako
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Rhymes of a rolling stone
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The spell of the Yukon
13 editions - first published in 1907 Read -
Ballads of a Bohemian
13 editions - first published in 1921 Read -
The trail of '98
11 editions - first published in 1910 Read -
Rhymes of a Red Cross man
11 editions - first published in 1916 Read -
The best of Robert Service
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More collected verse
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Poems
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The complete poems of Robert Service
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The shooting of Dan McGrew
7 editions - first published in 1969 -
The spell of the Yukon, and other verses
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The house of fear
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Songs of the high north
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Why not grow young?, or, Living for longevity
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The poisoned paradise
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More selected verse of Robert Service
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Songs of a sun-lover
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Ploughman of the moon
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Bar-room ballads
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Collected poems
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The roughneck
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Best Tales of the Yukon
3 editions - first published in 1983 Borrow -
The cremation of Sam McGee
3 editions - first published in 1987 Borrow -
Harper of Heaven
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The master of the microbe
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Rhymes for my rags
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The Trail of Ninety-Eight
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Collected verse of Robert Service
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Rhymes of a rebel
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Collected Works of Robert W. Service
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Dan McGrew, Sam McGee, and other great Service
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Carols of an old codger
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Yukon Poems of Robert W. Service
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The shooting of Dan McGrew and other poems ..
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Rhymes of a roughneck
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Later collected verse
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Why not grow young?
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Rhymes of a Red Cross man
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Rhymes of a Red Cross man. --
1 edition - first published in 1917 Read -
Songs of a sourdough
1 edition - first published in 1907 Read -
The shooting of Dan McGrew, & other favorite poems
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[ Postcard with photograph of Service's cabin in the Yukon.]
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Campfire poems
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Rhymes of the midnight sun
1 edition - first published in 1989 -
The Cremation of Sam McGee and Other Verses by Robert Service
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The Poems of Robert Service
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
Complete poetical works of Robert W. Service
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The Ghosts of No Man's Land - The Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
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Lyrics of a low brow
1 edition - first published in 1951 -
Songs for my supper
1 edition - first published in 1953 -
Cremation of Sam McGee and Other Poems
1 edition - first published in 1989 -
Robert Service Collected Poems
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
The complete poems
1 edition - first published in 1940 -
Dan McGrew, Sam McGee
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
The song of the campfire
1 edition - first published in 1978 -
The spell of the Yukon
1 edition - first published in 1916 Read -
Rhymes of a rolling stone
1 edition - first published in 1912 Read -
The rhymes of a Red-Cross man
1 edition - first published in 1916 Read -
My adventures in the North
1 edition - first published in 1960 -
The very best of Robert Service
1 edition - first published in 2002 Read -
The spell of the Yukon and other poems
1 edition - first published in 2012 -
The complete poems of Robert Service.
1 edition - first published in 1950 Borrow -
Collected verse of Robert Service.
1 edition - first published in 1948 Borrow
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