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 ...
When the long grey lines came flooding upon Paris in the plain,We stood and drank of the last free air ...
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun,And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;There is laughter ...
Five kings rule o'er the Amorite,Mighty as fear and old as night;Swathed with unguent and gold and jewel,Waxed they merry ...
Our God who made two lovers in a garden, And smote them separate and set them free, Their four eyes wild for ...
The angels are singing like birds in a tree In the organ of good St. Cecily: And the parson reads with his ...
Do you remember one immortal Lost moment out of time and space, What time we thought, who passed the portal Of that divine ...
A bird flew out at the break of day From the nest where it had curled,And ere the eve the bird ...
We have graven the mountain of God with hands, As our hands were graven of God, they say, Where the seraphs burn ...
The happy men that lose their heads They find their heads in heaven, As cherub heads with cherub wings, And cherub haloes even: Out ...
The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stayAt his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far away).They ...
All things grew upwards, foul and fair:The great trees fought and beat the airWith monstrous wings that would have flown;But ...
The sun was black with judgment, and the moonBlood: but betweenI saw a man stand, saying: 'To me at leastThe ...
On must we go: we search dead leaves, We chase the sunset's saddest flames,The nameless hues that o'er and o'er In lawless ...
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