The Ballad of St. Barbara (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
When the long grey lines came flooding upon Paris in the plain,We stood and drank of the last free air ...
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 ...
A bird flew out at the break of day From the nest where it had curled,And ere the eve the bird ...
Were I that wandering citizen whose city is the world, I would not weep for all that fell before the flags ...
We will not let thee be, for thou art ours. We thank thee still, though thou forget these things,For that hour's ...
(W.E.G., May 1898)Lift up your heads: in life, in death, God knoweth his head was high.Quit we the coward's broken breath Who ...
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 ...
The World is ours till sunset, Holly and fire and snow;And the name of our dead brother Who loved us long ago.The ...
Name not his deed: in shuddering and in haste We dragged him darkly o'er the windy fell:That night there was a ...
A child sits in a sunny place, Too happy for a smile,And plays through one long holiday With balls to roll and ...
Lo! very fair is she who knows the ways Of joy: in pleasure's mocking wisdom old,The eyes that might be cold ...
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