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, ...
Many have Earth's lovers been, Tried in seas and wars, I ween; Yet the mightiest have I seen: Yea, the ...
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 ...
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 ...
I do not cry, beloved, neither curse. Silence and strength, these two at least are good. He gave me sun ...
Feast on wine or fast on water And your honour shall stand sure, God Almighty's son and daughter He the ...
There is heard a hymn when the panes are dim, And never before or again, When the nights are strong ...
The Devil is a gentleman and askes you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far ...
Other loves may sink and settle, other loves may loose and slack, But I wander like a minstrel with a ...
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeless All ...
Old Noah he had an ostrich farm and fowls on the largest scale, He ate his egg with a ladle ...
Smile at us, pay us, pass us; but do not quite forget; For we are the people of England, that ...
A Book of verses underneath the bough, Provided that the verses do not scan, A loaf of bread, a jug ...
It is something to have wept as we have wept, It is something to have done as we have done, ...
One in thy thousand statues we salute thee On all thy thousand thrones acclaim and claim Who walk in forest ...
Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road. ...
The wind blew out from Bergen, from the dawning to the day There was a wreck of trees, a fall ...
They haven't got no noses, The fallen sons of Eve; Even the smell of roses Is not what they supposes; ...
Lo! I am come to autumn, When all the leaves are gold; Grey hairs and golden leaves cry out The ...
To J.S.M. The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine; God brought it burning from the sod ...
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