The English Graves (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
Were I that wandering citizen whose city is the world, I would not weep for all that fell before the flags ...
Were I that wandering citizen whose city is the world, I would not weep for all that fell before the flags ...
Oh, weep for Moncontour! Oh! weep for the hour,When the children of darkness and evil had power,When the horsemen of ...
To J.S.M.The wine they drink in ParadiseThey make in Haute Lorraine;God brought it burning from the sodTo be a sign ...
WHEN from a mighty storm far out at seaRoll in the glassy and gigantic waves,-Wreck-laden Tritons, bearing in their armsThe ...
Guns of Verdun point to MetzFrom the plated parapets;Guns of Metz grin back againO'er the fields of fair Lorraine.Guns of ...
When painters leave this world, we grieveFor the hand that will work no more,But who can say that they rest ...
And what is life?--a pleasure and a pain, A vision of the sun--a day of rain. And what is love?--a ...
Low in the West, a banner floating wide Of God's own colors hangs in dreamy pride; A wealth of purple ...
The Lady Lorraine was sweet and fair; The Lady Lorraine was young; She had wonderful eyes and glorious hair, And ...
I He whom we anatomized 'whose words we gathered as pleasant flowers and thought on his wit and how neatly ...
The Grenadiers of Austria are proper men and tall; The Grenadiers of Austria have scaled the city wall; They have ...
MY son, at last the fateful day has come For us to part. The hours have nearly run.May God ...
Tell me now in what hidden way is Lady Flora the lovely Roman? Where's Hipparchia, and where is Thais, Neither ...
'Twas a dirty night, 'twas a dirty trickWhen our ship turned over in the AtlanticIt was the schooner Hesperous - ...
1'Are you ready for your steeple-chase, Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree?Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Baree,You're booked to ride your capping ...
"ARE you ready for your steeplechase, Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree? Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Barum, Baree. You're booked to ride ...
To J.S.M. The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine; God brought it burning from the sod ...
The new ergonomics were delivered just before lunchtime so we ignored them. Without revealing the particulars let me just say ...
The new ergonomics were delivered just before lunchtime so we ignored them. Without revealing the particulars let me just say ...
'Twas in a village in Lorraine Whose name I quite forget, I found I needfully was fain To buy a ...
I While I stood listening, discreetly dumb, Lorraine was having the last word with me: "I know," she said, "I ...
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