The Ballad Of The Battle Of Gibeon (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
Five kings rule o'er the Amorite,Mighty as fear and old as night;Swathed with unguent and gold and jewel,Waxed they merry ...
Five kings rule o'er the Amorite,Mighty as fear and old as night;Swathed with unguent and gold and jewel,Waxed they merry ...
Impetuously I sprang from bed,Long before lunch was up,That I might drain the dizzy dewFrom the day's first golden cup.In ...
All day the nations climb and crawl and pray In one long pilgrimage to one white shrine,Where sleeps a saint whose ...
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 ...
I Cut a staff in a churchyard copse, I clad myself in ragged things,I set a feather in my cap That fell ...
My Lady clad herself in grey, That caught and clung about her throat;Then all the long grey winter day On me a ...
I had grown weary of him; of his breathAnd hands and features I was sick to death.Each day I heard ...
Between a meadow and a cloud that sped In rain and twilight, in desire and fear. I heard a secret--hearken in your ...
That night the whole world mingled, The souls were babes at play,And angel danced with devil. And God cried, 'Holiday!'The sea had ...
O God of earth and altar,Bow down and hear our cry,Our earthly rulers falter,Our people drift and die;The walls of ...
I saw an old man like a child,His blue eyes bright, his white hair wild,Who turned for ever, and might ...
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