A. C. Doyle – How the Brigadier Slew the Fox : Brigadier Gerard
How the Brigadier Slew the Fox : The Adventures of Brigadier Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle How the Brigadier Slew the Fox The Crime Of The Brigadier by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle First published in The Strand Magazine, January 1900 as “The Crime Of The Brigadier” First book appearance in The Adventures Of Brigadier Gerard, […]
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Bram Stoker – A Yellow Duster
A Yellow Duster : by Bram Stoker A Yellow Duster by Bram Stoker A Yellow Duster When my old friend Stanhope came unexpectedly, late in life, into a huge fortune he went traveling round the world for a whole year with his wife before settling down. We had been friends in college days, but I […]
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A. C. Doyle – A True Story of the Tragedy of Flowery Land
A True Story of the Tragedy of Flowery Land by Arthur Conan Doyle A True Story of the Tragedy of Flowery Land by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Published in Louisville Courier-Journal, 10 March 1899. A True Story of the Tragedy of Flowery Land A steam tug was puffing wheezily in front of the high-masted barque-rigged […]
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Bram Stoker – Chin Music
Chin Music : Snowbound – The Record of a Theatrical Touring Party by Bram Stoker Chin Music by Bram Stoker Chin Music ‘One night we were journeying in the west of the Rockies over a road bed which threatened to jerk out our teeth with every loosely-laid sleeper on the line. ‘Travelling in that part […]
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A. C. Doyle – The Old Huntsman Poem
The Old Huntsman Poem : Songs of Action Poetry by Arthur Conan Doyle The Old Huntsman Poem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Old Huntsman Poem There’s a keen and grim old huntsman On a horse as white as snow; Sometimes he is very swift And sometimes he is slow. But he never is at […]
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A. C. Doyle – The Retirement of Signor Lambert
The Retirement of Signor Lambert by Arthur Conan Doyle The Retirement of Signor Lambert by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle First published in Pearson’s Magazine, Dec 1898 First book appearance in The Unknown Conan Doyle, 1929 The Retirement of Signor Lambert SIR WILLIAM SPARTER was a man who had raised himself in the course of a […]
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A. C. Doyle – Songs of Action Poems
Songs of Action Poems by Arthur Conan Doyle Songs of Action Poems by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle First published by Smith, Elder & Co, London, 1898 Songs of Action Poetry Contents The Song of the Bow Poem Cremona Poem The Storming Party Poem The Frontier Line Poem Corporal Dick’s Promotion Poem A Forgotten Tale Poem […]
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A. C. Doyle – The Franklin’s Maid Poem
The Franklin’s Maid Poem : Songs of Action Poetry by Arthur Conan Doyle The Franklin’s Maid Poem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Franklin’s Maid Poem (From The White Company) The franklin he hath gone to roam, The franklin’s maid she bides at home; But she is cold, and coy, and staid, And who may […]
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A. C. Doyle – The Passing Poem
The Passing Poem : Songs of Action Poetry by Arthur Conan Doyle The Passing Poem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Passing Poem It was the hour of dawn, When the heart beats thin and small, The window glimmered grey, Framed in a shadow wall. And in the cold sad light Of the early morningtide, […]
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A. C. Doyle – A Tragedy Poem
A Tragedy Poem : Songs of Action Poetry by Arthur Conan Doyle A Tragedy Poem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Tragedy Poem Who’s that walking on the moorland? Who’s that moving on the hill? They are passing ‘mid the bracken, But the shadows grow and blacken And I cannot see them clearly on the […]
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A. C. Doyle – A Parable Poem
A Parable Poem : Songs of Action Poetry by Arthur Conan Doyle A Parable Poem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle A Parable Poem The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said that it came from the air, And the Heretics said from the platter. They argued it […]
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A. C. Doyle – The Blind Archer Poem
The Blind Archer Poem : Songs of Action Poetry by Arthur Conan Doyle The Blind Archer Poem by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The Blind Archer Poem Little boy Love drew his bow at a chance, Shooting down at the ballroom floor; He hit an old chaperone watching the dance, And oh! but he wounded her […]
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