The Songs of a Sourdough

The Songs of a Sourdough

"The Songs of a Sourdough" is a book of poetry published in 1907 by Robert W. Service. In the United States, these poems were published under the title "The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses". It contains these poems:

* "The Land God Forgot"
* "The Spell of the Yukon"
* "The Heart of the Sourdough"
* "The Three Voices"
* "The Law of the Yukon"
* "The Parson's Son"
* "The Call of the Wild"
* "The Lone Trail"
* "The Pines"
* "The Lure of Little Voices"
* "The Song of the Wage-Slave"
* "Grin"
* "The Shooting of Dan McGrew"
* "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
* "My Madonna"
* "Unforgotten"
* "The Reckoning"
* "Quatrains"
* "The Men That Don't Fit"
* "Music in the Bush"
* "The Rhyme of the Remittance Man"
* "The Low Down White"
* "The Little Old Log Cabin"
* "The Younger Son"
* "The March of the Dead"
* ""Fighting Mac""
* "The Woman and the Angel"
* "The Rhyme of the Restless Ones"
* "New Year's Eve"
* "Comfort"
* "The Harpy"
* "Premonition"
* "The Tramps"
* "L'Envoi"

Project Gutenberg offers the full text of all of the poems contained in this collection.

External links

* [http://library.beau.org/gutenberg/etext95/spyuk11.txt "The Spell of the Yukon" from Project Gutenberg]


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