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 ...
When we went hunting the Dragon In the days when we were young, We tossed the bright world over our shoulder As bugle ...
All day the nations climb and crawl and pray In one long pilgrimage to one white shrine,Where sleeps a saint whose ...
When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think I shall not be too old To stare ...
Do you remember one immortal Lost moment out of time and space, What time we thought, who passed the portal Of that divine ...
I love to see the little stars All dancing to one tune; I think quite highly of the Sun, And kindly of the ...
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them tangled in a ...
Blue-eyed was Elf the minstrel, With womanish hair and ring, Yet heavy was his hand on sword, Though light upon the string. And as ...
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 ...
My eyes are full of lonely mirth: Reeling with want and worn with scars,For pride of every stone on earth, I shake ...
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 wandering world of rivers, A wavering world of trees, If the world grow dim and dizzy With all changes and degrees, It is ...
All round they murmur, 'O profane, Keep thy heart's secret hid as gold';But I, by God, would sooner be Some knight in ...
A wan new garment of young green Touched, as you turned your soft brown hair And in me surged the strangest prayerEver ...
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