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 In

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

"There are strange things done in the midnight sun," declared Robert Service as he related the fulfillment of a dying prospector's request. "The Cremation of Sam McGee" was based on one of many peculiar tales he heard upon his 1904 arrival in the Canadian frontier town of Whitehorse. Less than a decade after the Klondike gold rush, many natives and transplants remained to tell stories of the boom towns that sprang up with the sudden influx of miners, gamblers, barflies, and other fortune-seekers. Service's compelling verses — populated by One-Eyed Mike, Dangerous Dan McGrew, and other colorful characters — recapture the era's venturesome spirit and vitality.
In this, his best-remembered work, the "common man's poet" and "Canadian Kipling" presents thirty-four verses that celebrate the rugged natural beauty of the frozen North and the warm humanity of its denizens. Verses include "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" ("A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon"), "The Heart of the Sourdough" ("There where the mighty mountains bare their fangs unto the moon"), and "The Call of the Wild" (Have you gazed on naked grandeur where there's nothing else to gaze on"). Generations have fallen under the spell of these poems, which continue to enchant readers of all ages.