The Wild Knight (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
The wasting thistle whitens on my crest,The barren grasses blow upon my spear,A green, pale pennon: blazon of wild faithAnd ...
The wasting thistle whitens on my crest,The barren grasses blow upon my spear,A green, pale pennon: blazon of wild faithAnd ...
_Year 13--._ Barbican, bartizan, battlement, With the Abergavenny mountains blent, Look, from the Raglan tower of Gwent, My lord Hugh Clifford's ancient home Shows, clear ...
This was a city once: women lived here;Their voices were low to their lovers, o'nights by the murmuring waters;Their hands ...
Once a Gargoyle and a GriffinThought they'd go and take their tiffinWith the eminent Confucius, just outside the temple wall;So ...
Beyond the gates of Hercules The seven builders took the stone, Spurned everywhere in days of ease, Long lying loose ...
Morning, if this late withered light can claimSome kindred with that merry flameWhich the young day was wont to fling ...
Looks as though a cyclone hit him—Can't buy clothes that seem to fit him;An' his cheeks are rough like leather,Made ...
What have we missed? Now he returns no moreWe are left with but our blindness to deplore,But, concentrating on his ...
When as I hear my Julia playUpon the oboe, oft I sayWell pleased were I if I might sitHour-long by ...
Slowly, without force, the rain drops into the city. It stops a moment on the carved head of Saint John, ...
She was thinner, with a mannered gauntness as she paused just inside the double glass doors to survey the room, ...
Slim inquirer, while the old fathers sleep you are reworking their soil, you have a grocery store there down under ...
(The Wounded Canadian Speaks) My leg? It's off at the knee. Do I miss it? Well, some. You see I've ...
Momus is the name men give your face, The brag of its tone, like a long low steamboat whistle Finding ...
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