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 ...
We watched you building, stone by stone, The well-washed cells and well-washed graves We shall inhabit but not own When Britons ever shall ...
I dreamed a dream of heaven, white as frost,The splendid stillness of a living host;Vast choirs of upturned faces, line ...
When God turned back eternity and was young,Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth(As under the low arch the ...
A wandering world of rivers, A wavering world of trees, If the world grow dim and dizzy With all changes and degrees, It is ...
'What of vile dust?' the preacher said. Methought the whole world woke,The dead stone lived beneath my foot, And my whole body ...
We came behind him by the wall, My brethren drew their brands,And they had strength to strike him down-- And I to ...
A mountainous and mystic bruteNo rein can curb, no arrow shoot,Upon whose domed deformed backI sweep the planets scorching track.Old ...
Name not his deed: in shuddering and in haste We dragged him darkly o'er the windy fell:That night there was a ...
Before the grass grew over me, I knew one good man through and through,And knew a soul and body joined Are stronger ...
The still sweet meadows shimmered: and I stood And cursed them, bloom of hedge and bird of tree,And bright and high ...
How many million stars there be,That only God hath numbered;But this one only chosen for meIn time before her face ...
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