The Holy of Holies (G. K. Chesterton Poem)
'Elder father, though thine eyes Shine with hoary mysteries, Canst thou tell what in the heart Of a cowslip blossom ...
'Elder father, though thine eyes Shine with hoary mysteries, Canst thou tell what in the heart Of a cowslip blossom ...
I cannot count the pebbles in the brook. Well hath He spoken: "Swear not by thy head. Thou knowest not ...
John Grubby who was short and stout And troubled with religious doubt, Refused about the age of three To sit ...
Though giant rains put out the sun, Here stand I for a sign. Though earth be filled with waters dark, ...
The sun was black with judgment, and the moon Blood: but between I saw a man stand, saying: 'To me ...
Low and brown barns, thatched and repatched and tattered, Where I had seven sons until to-day, A little hill of ...
Many have Earth's lovers been, Tried in seas and wars, I ween; Yet the mightiest have I seen: Yea, the ...
Impetuously I sprang from bed, Long before lunch was up, That I might drain the dizzy dew From the day's ...
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them ...
The line breaks and the guns go under, The lords and the lackeys ride the plain; I draw deep breaths ...
Sunder me from my bones, O sword of God Till they stand stark and strange as do the trees; That ...
God made the wicked Grocer For a mystery and a sign, That men might shun the awful shops And go ...
When God turned back eternity and was young, Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth (As under the low ...
Old King Cole Was a merry old soul And a merry old soul was he He called for his pipe ...
Some say that Guy of Warwick The man that killed the Cow, And brake the mighty Boar alive Beyond the ...
This much, O heaven-if I should brood or rave, Pity me not; but let the world be fed, Yea, in ...
Under what withering leprous light The very grass as hair is grey, Grass in the cracks of the paven courts ...
The Druids waved their golden knives And danced around the Oak When they had sacrificed a man; But though the ...
Why do you rush through the fields in trains, Guessing so much and so much. Why do you flash through ...
Are they clinging to their crosses, F. E. Smith, Where the Breton boat-fleet tosses, Are they, Smith? Do they, fasting, ...
There is one sin: to call a green leaf gray, Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth. There is one blasphemy: ...
A livid sky on London And like the iron steeds that rear A shock of engines halted And I knew ...
O learned man who never learned to learn, Save to deduce, by timid steps and small, From towering smoke that ...
Chattering finch and water-fly Are not merrier than I; Here among the flowers I lie Laughing everlastingly. No; I may ...
I do not cry, beloved, neither curse. Silence and strength, these two at least are good. He gave me sun ...
They spoke of Progress spiring round, Of light and Mrs Humphrey Ward-- It is not true to say I frowned, ...
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and ...
Feast on wine or fast on water And your honour shall stand sure, God Almighty's son and daughter He the ...
The Devil is a gentleman and askes you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far ...
The Rev. Isaiah Bunter has disappeared into the interior of the Solomon Islands, and it is feared that he may ...
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