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 ...
Impetuously I sprang from bed,Long before lunch was up,That I might drain the dizzy dewFrom the day's first golden cup.In ...
All day the nations climb and crawl and pray In one long pilgrimage to one white shrine,Where sleeps a saint whose ...
The angels are singing like birds in a tree In the organ of good St. Cecily: And the parson reads with his ...
Are they clinging to their crosses,F. E. Smith,Where the Breton boat-fleet tosses,Are they, Smith?Do they, fasting, trembling, bleeding,Wait the news ...
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 ...
Were I that wandering citizen whose city is the world, I would not weep for all that fell before the flags ...
All round they murmur, 'O profane, Keep thy heart's secret hid as gold';But I, by God, would sooner be Some knight in ...
I had grown weary of him; of his breathAnd hands and features I was sick to death.Each day I heard ...
Fair faces crowd on Christmas night Like seven suns a-row,But all beyond is the wolfish wind And the crafty feet of the ...
That night the whole world mingled, The souls were babes at play,And angel danced with devil. And God cried, 'Holiday!'The sea had ...
If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams Of bliss and blasphemy came true,If skies were green and snow were gold, And you ...
Before the grass grew over me, I knew one good man through and through,And knew a soul and body joined Are stronger ...
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