Joseph (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams Of bliss and blasphemy came true,If skies were green and snow were gold, And you ...
If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams Of bliss and blasphemy came true,If skies were green and snow were gold, And you ...
This circled cosmos whereof man is god Has suns and stars of green and gold and red,And cloudlands of great smoke, ...
Witness all: that unrepenting, Feathers flying, music high,I go down to death unshaken By your mean philosophy.For your wages, take my body, That ...
I cannot count the pebbles in the brook.Well hath He spoken: 'Swear not by thy head.Thou knowest not the hairs,' ...
Lo! I am come to autumn,When all the leaves are gold;Grey hairs and golden leaves cry outThe year and I ...
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 ...
To teach the grey earth like a child, To bid the heavens repent,I only ask from Fate the gift Of one man ...
God made the wicked GrocerFor a mystery and a sign,That men might shun the awful shopAnd go to inns to ...
The vision of a haloed host That weep around an empty throne;And, aureoles dark and angels dead, Man with his own life ...
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