rating from the Russian (Cyrillic)
alphabet to the Roman Alphabet, hampered by different uses of Roman
letters in various European languages, it is not until fairly recently
that the current spellings have taken hold--and their grip is not yet
firm. A couple of other names were given incorrectly in the same poem:
Mallarme was spelled with one L, and E. Burne-Jones (a pre-Raphaelite
painter and associate of Rossetti) was given as F. B. Jones. These
names are corrected in this text, as is Synge, given as Singe in the
original ("L'Escargot D'Or").

The Introduction to Alan Seeger's Poems, written by William Archer, is
included in the Project Gutenberg edition of Seeger's Poems, if you feel
inclined to compare and contrast the cases.

If you enjoy Service's style of poetry, I would like to recommend to you
the works of A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson, an Australian poet, author of 'The
Man from Snowy River' and 'Waltzing Matilda'. His style and his sense of
humour are similar. Several of his works are available from Project
Gutenberg.

Alan R. Light, Monroe, North Carolina, June 1997.

This list of books written by Robert Service is probably incomplete,
possibly incorrect, but may serve as a starting point for those
interested in his works.

Novels:
The Trail of '98--A Northland Romance (1910)
The Pretender
The Poisoned Paradise
The Roughneck
The Master of the Microbe
The House of Fear (1927)

Autobiography:

Ploughman of the Moon (1945) | A two-volume
Harper of Heaven (1948) | autobiography.

Miscellaneous:
Why Not Grow Young

Verse:
* The Spell of the Yukon (1907) a.k.a. Songs of a Sourdough
* Ballads of a Cheechako (1909)
[Note: A Sourdough is an old-timer, while a Cheechako is a newbie.]
* Rhymes of a Rolling Stone (1912)
* Rhymes of a Red Cross Man (1916)
* Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
Bar-room Ballads (1940)
The Complete Poems (The first 6 books)
Songs of a Sunlover
Rhymes of a Roughneck
Lyrics of a Low Brow
Rhymes of a Rebel
The Collected Poems
Songs For My Supper (1953)
Rhymes For My Rags (1956)

* Books marked by an asterisk are presently online.

About the Author

Robert William Service was born 16 January 1874 in Preston, England, but
also lived in Scotland before emigrating to Canada in 1894. Service went
to the Yukon Territory in 1904 as a bank clerk, and became famo