Lepanto (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun,And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;There is laughter ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun,And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;There is laughter ...
TO J F HNine years have slipt like hour-glass sandFrom life's still-emptying globe away,Since last, dear friend, I clasped your ...
"Forward, comrades, ever forward"!Shout the leaders in the fight;"Scale the ramparts! Plant the standardOn the citadel of light!"Break the chains ...
In some quaint Nurnberg maler-atelierUprummaged. When and where was never clearNor yet how he obtained it. When, by whom'Twas painted—who ...
Bound For Kamtschatka, Now Lying In The Harbour Of PortJackson.HAIL! Chieftain, from the distant landsThat own the Czar's imperial reign;With ...
Oh Lady! when I left the shore, The distant shore which gave me birth,I hardly thought to grieve once more To quit ...
Starved, mangy dogs with mournful, pleading eyes,Descendants of the ones that in a bygoneAge from the steppeland came, and, stung ...
This window has seen dames and lords of might,Sparkling with gold, with azure, flame and nacre,Bow down, before the altar ...
Ah, I am leaving Alexandriaand will not see it for a long time!I will see Cyprus, dear to the Goddess,I ...
LAND of departed fame! whose classic plains Have proudly echo'd to immortal strains; Whose hallow'd soil hath given the great ...
What holy rites Mohammed's laws ordain,What various duties bind his faithful train,—What pious zeal his scatter'd tribes unitesIn fix'd observance ...
A Report, though false, at that time generally believed. FALLEN are thy towers, Byzantium! towers that stoodBefore the Turk's dread ...
" Who built the seven gates of Thebes? The books are filled with names of kings. Was it the kings ...
I am poor and old and blind; The sun burns me, and the wind Blows through the city gate And ...
We have now won two world-wars, neither of which concerned us, we were slipped in. We have levelled the powers ...
I know, I know The word is contracts . Well. Notwithstanding. Aforesaid forbearance to assert Title manifest objection Ancient precedents ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun, And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run; There ...
Who built Thebes of the seven gates? In the books you will find the names of kings. Did the kings ...
I That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those ...
1 SINGING my days, Singing the great achievements of the present, Singing the strong, light works of engineers, Our modern ...
The ArgumentA certain man having landed on an island in the Greek sea, found there a beautifuldamsel, whom he would ...
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