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 ...
Five kings rule o'er the Amorite,Mighty as fear and old as night;Swathed with unguent and gold and jewel,Waxed they merry ...
All day the nations climb and crawl and pray In one long pilgrimage to one white shrine,Where sleeps a saint whose ...
The line breaks and the guns go under,The lords and the lackeys ride the plain;I draw deep breaths of the ...
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 ...
Laugh your best, O blazoned forests, Me ye shall not shift or shameWith your beauty: here among you Man hath set his ...
This is the weird of a world-old folk, That not till the last link breaks,Not till the night is blackest, The blood ...
A mountainous and mystic bruteNo rein can curb, no arrow shoot,Upon whose domed deformed backI sweep the planets scorching track.Old ...
Between a meadow and a cloud that sped In rain and twilight, in desire and fear. I heard a secret--hearken in your ...
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 ...
A wan sky greener than the lawn, A wan lawn paler than the sky.She gave a flower into my hand, And all ...
I cannot count the pebbles in the brook.Well hath He spoken: 'Swear not by thy head.Thou knowest not the hairs,' ...
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