Lepanto (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
White founts falling in the Courts of the sun,And the Soldan of Byzantium is smiling as they run;There is laughter ...
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 ...
Impetuously I sprang from bed,Long before lunch was up,That I might drain the dizzy dewFrom the day's first golden cup.In ...
Observe these Pirates bold and gay, That sail a gory sea: Notice their bright expression:-- The handsome one is me. We plundered ships and ...
All day the nations climb and crawl and pray In one long pilgrimage to one white shrine,Where sleeps a saint whose ...
I love to see the little stars All dancing to one tune; I think quite highly of the Sun, And kindly of the ...
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 ...
(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 ...
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 ...
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