Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,To welcome home mankind's mysterious friendWine, true begetter of all arts that be;Wine, privilege of ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,To welcome home mankind's mysterious friendWine, true begetter of all arts that be;Wine, privilege of ...
Remote and ineffectual DonThat dared attack my Chesterton,With that poor weapon, half-impelled,Unlearnt, unsteady, hardly held,Unworthy for a tilt with men—Your ...
When I am living in the MidlandsThat are sodden and unkind,I light my lamp in the evening:My work is left ...
There was a Boy whose name was Jim;His Friends were very good to him.They gave him Tea, and Cakes, and ...
Matilda told such Dreadful Lies,It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes;Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth,Had kept a ...
Years ago when I was at Balliol, Balliol men-and I was one-Swam together in winter rivers, Wrestled together under the sun.And still ...
Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born;He held the Human Race in Scorn,And lived with all his Sisters whereHis father lived, in ...
Some years ago you heard me singMy doubts on Alexander Byng.His sister Sarah now inspiresMy jaded Muse, my failing fires.Of ...
It happened to Lord Lundy then,As happens to so many men:Towards the age of twenty-six,They shoved him into politics;In which ...
When Peter Wanderwide was youngHe wandered everywhere he would:All that he approved was sung,And most of what he saw was ...
Pelagius lived at KardanoelAnd taught a doctrine thereHow, whether you went to heaven or to hellIt was your own affair.It ...
There is a wall of which the stonesAre lies and bribes and dead men's bones.And wrongfully this evil wallDenies what ...
Do you remember an Inn, Miranda?Do you remember an Inn?And the tedding and the spreading of the straw for a bedding,And ...
Lord Lundy from his earliest yearsWas far too freely moved to Tears.For instance if his Mother said,"Lundy! It's time to ...
ION a winter's night long time ago(The bells ring loud and the bells ring low),When high howled wind, and down ...
ILady and Queen and Mystery manifoldAnd very Regent of the untroubled sky,Whom in a dream St. Hilda did beholdAnd heard ...
When George's Grandmamma was toldThat George had been as good as gold,She promised in the afternoonTo buy him an Immense ...
My reading is extremely deep and wide;And as our modern education goes-Unique I think, and skilfully appliedTo Art and Industry ...
The nicest child I ever knewWas Charles Augustus Fortescue.He never lost his cap, or toreHis stockings or his pinafore:In eating ...
I will not try to reach again, I will not set my sail alone, To moor a boat bereft of men At Yarnton's ...
A trick that everyone abhorsIn little girls is slamming doors.A wealthy banker's little daughterWho lived in Palace Green, Bayswater(By name ...
The parents of the learned child(His father and his mother)Were utterly aghast to noteThe facts he would at random quoteOn ...
Of Courtesy, it is much lessThan Courage of Heart or Holiness,Yet in my Walks it seems to meThat the Grace ...
I will not try the reach again, I will not set my sail alone, To moor a boat bereft of men At Yarnton's ...
Here richly, with ridiculous display,The Politician's corpse was laid away.While all of his acquaintance sneered and slangedI wept: for I ...
My jolly fat host with your face all a-grin,Come, open the door to us, let us come in.A score of ...
D: The Dreadful Dinotherium heWill have to do his best for D.The early world observed with aweHis back, indented like ...
Look, how those steep woods on the mountain's face Burn, burn against the sunset; now the cold Invades our very noon: the ...
He lost his money first of allAnd losing that is half the story-And later on he tried a fallWith fate, ...
The Llama is a wooly sort of fleecy hairy goat,With an indolent expression and an undulating throatLike an unsuccessful literary ...
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