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 ...
The angels are singing like birds in a tree In the organ of good St. Cecily: And the parson reads with his ...
A bird flew out at the break of day From the nest where it had curled,And ere the eve the bird ...
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them tangled in a ...
We have graven the mountain of God with hands, As our hands were graven of God, they say, Where the seraphs burn ...
I dreamed a dream of heaven, white as frost,The splendid stillness of a living host;Vast choirs of upturned faces, line ...
Our souls shall be Leviathans In purple seas of wine When drunkenness is dead with death, And drink is all divine; Learning in those ...
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 ...
You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go--I know your hoary question, the riddle that all ...
We will not let thee be, for thou art ours. We thank thee still, though thou forget these things,For that hour's ...
Though the whole heaven be one-eyed with the moon, Though the dead landscape seem a thing possessed, Yet I go singing through ...
This is the weird of a world-old folk, That not till the last link breaks,Not till the night is blackest, The blood ...
When God turned back eternity and was young,Ancient of Days, grown little for your mirth(As under the low arch the ...
'What of vile dust?' the preacher said. Methought the whole world woke,The dead stone lived beneath my foot, And my whole body ...
All round they murmur, 'O profane, Keep thy heart's secret hid as gold';But I, by God, would sooner be Some knight in ...
All things grew upwards, foul and fair:The great trees fought and beat the airWith monstrous wings that would have flown;But ...
Between a meadow and a cloud that sped In rain and twilight, in desire and fear. I heard a secret--hearken in your ...
A child sits in a sunny place, Too happy for a smile,And plays through one long holiday With balls to roll and ...
I cannot count the pebbles in the brook.Well hath He spoken: 'Swear not by thy head.Thou knowest not the hairs,' ...
There is one sin: to call a green leaf gray,Whereat the sun in heaven shuddereth.There is one blasphemy: for death ...
Feast on wine or fast on water,And your honor shall stand sureIf an angel out of heavenBrings you something else ...
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