Rhymes of a Rolling Stone

by Robert W. Service from 1912

About

Service's third collection widens his range from the Yukon: poems of travel and wanderlust, Mediterranean observations, and occasional verses alongside the adventure ballads of his reputation. The rolling stone of the title is Service himself — restless, peripatetic, always in motion. The collection shows more lyrical ambition alongside the dramatic energy of his earlier work.

Rhymes of a Rolling Stone

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23.1k
Duration
~2 hr 53 min

53 sections

23.1k words
#TitleWords
1
480:22
2
Prelude
1421:04
3
The Scribe's Prayer
50:02
4
Prelude
1911:26
5
A Rolling Stone
5003:45
6
The Soldier of Fortune
7765:49
7
The Gramaphone at Fond-Du-Lac
5574:11
8
The Land of Beyond
1841:23
9
Sunshine
1.5k11:35
10
The Idealist
1921:26
11
Athabaska Dick
7745:48
12
Cheer
2011:30
13
The Return
1270:57
14
The Junior God
2111:35
15
The Nostomaniac
8426:19
16
Ambition
1120:50
17
To Sunnydale
1521:08
18
The Blind and the Dead
2071:33
19
The Atavist
5714:17
20
The Sceptic
450:20
21
The Rover
2972:14
22
Barb-Wire Bill
1.1k8:16
23
Just Think!
710:32
24
The Lunger
5193:54
25
The Mountain and the Lake
1681:16
26
The Headliner and the Breadliner
1080:49
27
Death in the Arctic
1.3k9:36
28
Dreams Are Best
2381:47
29
The Quitter
2061:33
30
The Cow-Juice Cure
5464:06
31
While the Bannock Bakes
1.1k8:22
32
The Lost Master
1821:22
33
Little Moccasins
2792:06
34
The Wanderlust
6414:48
35
The Trapper's Christmas Eve
3812:51
36
The World's All Right
4583:26
37
The Baldness of Chewed-Ear
8996:45
38
The Mother
1841:23
39
The Dreamer
8536:24
40
At Thirty-Five
2591:57
41
The Squaw Man
6384:47
42
Home and Love
1531:09
43
I'm Scared of it All
5023:46
44
A Song of Success
2121:35
45
The Song of the Camp-Fire
9096:49
46
Her Letter
2992:15
47
The Man Who Knew
2071:33
48
The Logger
4773:35
49
The Passing of the Year
3672:45
50
The Ghosts
1.3k9:56
51
Good-Bye, Little Cabin
3122:20
52
Heart o' the North
1040:47
53
The Scribe's Prayer
3912:56