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 ...
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 ...
Laugh your best, O blazoned forests, Me ye shall not shift or shameWith your beauty: here among you Man hath set his ...
You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go--I know your hoary question, the riddle that all ...
Though the whole heaven be one-eyed with the moon, Though the dead landscape seem a thing possessed, Yet I go singing through ...
'What of vile dust?' the preacher said. Methought the whole world woke,The dead stone lived beneath my foot, And my whole body ...
The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap, His hair was like a light. (O weary, weary were the world, But here is all aright.) The ...
This much, O heaven-if I should brood or rave,Pity me not; but let the world be fed,Yea, in my madness ...
The World is ours till sunset, Holly and fire and snow;And the name of our dead brother Who loved us long ago.The ...
That night the whole world mingled, The souls were babes at play,And angel danced with devil. And God cried, 'Holiday!'The sea had ...
A wan sky greener than the lawn, A wan lawn paler than the sky.She gave a flower into my hand, And all ...
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