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 ...
Five kings rule o'er the Amorite,Mighty as fear and old as night;Swathed with unguent and gold and jewel,Waxed they merry ...
When we went hunting the Dragon In the days when we were young, We tossed the bright world over our shoulder As bugle ...
When all my days are ending And I have no song to sing, I think I shall not be too old To stare ...
Our souls shall be Leviathans In purple seas of wine When drunkenness is dead with death, And drink is all divine; Learning in those ...
Laugh your best, O blazoned forests, Me ye shall not shift or shameWith your beauty: here among you Man hath set his ...
(With apologies to a beautiful poem.) Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe decrease By cautious birth-control and die in peace) Mellow with learning ...
To J.S.M.The wine they drink in ParadiseThey make in Haute Lorraine;God brought it burning from the sodTo be a sign ...
Blessings there are of cradle and of clan, Blessings that fall of priests' and princes' hands; But never blessing full of lives ...
The violet scent is sacred Like dreams of angels bright;The hawthorn smells of passion Told in a moonless night.But the smell is ...
Priest, is any song-bird stricken? Is one leaf less on the tree?Is this wine less red and royal That the hangman waits ...
Feast on wine or fast on water,And your honor shall stand sureIf an angel out of heavenBrings you something else ...
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