First linesRobert W. Service

  1. A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon; The Shooting of Dan McGrew
  2. A pistol shot rings round and round the world: “Fighting Mac”
  3. An angel was tired of heaven, as he lounged in the golden street; The Woman and the Angel
  4. Can you recall, dear comrade, when we tramped God’s land together, The Tramps
  5. Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there’s nothing else to gaze on, The Call of the Wild
  6. I haled me a woman from the street, My Madonna
  7. I know a garden where the lilies gleam, Unforgotten
  8. I wanted the gold, and I sought it; The Spell of the Yukon
  9. If you leave the gloom of London and you seek a glowing land, The Younger Son
  10. If you’re up against a bruiser and you’re getting knocked about⁠— Grin
  11. It’s cruel cold on the waterfront, silent and dark and drear; New Year’s Eve
  12. It’s fine to have a blowout in a fancy restaurant, The Reckoning
  13. O’er the dark pines she sees the silver moon, Music in the Bush
  14. One said: Thy life is thine to make or mar, Quatrains
  15. Say! You’ve struck a heap of trouble⁠— Comfort
  16. The cruel war was over⁠—oh, the triumph was so sweet! The March of the Dead
  17. The waves have a story to tell me, The Three Voices
  18. There are strange things done in the midnight sun The Cremation of Sam McGee
  19. There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she; The Harpy
  20. There where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon; The Heart of the Sourdough
  21. There’s a cry from out the Loneliness⁠—Oh, listen, Honey, listen! The Lure of Little Voices
  22. There’s a four-pronged buck a-swinging in the shadow of my cabin, The Rhyme of the Remittance Man
  23. There’s a race of men that don’t fit in, The Men That Don’t Fit In
  24. This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain: The Law of the Yukon
  25. This is the payday up at the mines, when the bearded brutes come down; The Low-Down White
  26. This is the song of the parson’s son, as he squats in his shack alone, The Parson’s Son
  27. ’Twas a year ago and the moon was bright Premonition
  28. We couldn’t sit and study for the law; The Rhyme of the Restless Ones
  29. We sleep in the sleep of ages, the bleak, barbarian pines; The Pines
  30. When a man gits on his uppers in a hardpan sort of town, The Little Old Log Cabin
  31. When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay, The Song of the Wage-Slave
  32. Ye who know the Lone Trail fain would follow it, The Lone Trail
  33. You who have lived in the Land, L’Envoi

All poets.