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 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 ...
Our God who made two lovers in a garden, And smote them separate and set them free, Their four eyes wild for ...
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 ...
For every tiny town or place God made the stars especially; Babies look up with owlish face And see them tangled in a ...
Laugh your best, O blazoned forests, Me ye shall not shift or shameWith your beauty: here among you Man hath set his ...
You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go--I know your hoary question, the riddle that all ...
(With apologies to a beautiful poem.) Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe decrease By cautious birth-control and die in peace) Mellow with learning ...
This is the weird of a world-old folk, That not till the last link breaks,Not till the night is blackest, The blood ...
All round they murmur, 'O profane, Keep thy heart's secret hid as gold';But I, by God, would sooner be Some knight in ...
All things grew upwards, foul and fair:The great trees fought and beat the airWith monstrous wings that would have flown;But ...
Blessings there are of cradle and of clan, Blessings that fall of priests' and princes' hands; But never blessing full of lives ...
Dark the sea was: but I saw him, One great head with goggle eyes,Like a diabolic cherub Flying in those fallen skies.I ...
That night the whole world mingled, The souls were babes at play,And angel danced with devil. And God cried, 'Holiday!'The sea had ...
Lo! I am come to autumn,When all the leaves are gold;Grey hairs and golden leaves cry outThe year and I ...
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