[Month of] October (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Look, how those steep woods on the mountain's faceBurn, burn against the sunset; now the coldInvades our very noon: the ...
Hilaire Belloc Poems (166 Poems)
On The Gift Of A Book To A Child (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Child! do not throw this book about! Refrain from the unholy pleasureOf cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest ...
[Month of] April (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
The stranger warmth of the young sun obeying,Look! little beads of green begin to grow,And hidden flowers have dated their ...
[Month of] February (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
The winter moon has such a quiet carThat all the winter nights are dumb with rest.She drives the gradual dark ...
[Month of] May (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
This is the laughing-eyed amongst them all:My lady's month. A season of young things.She rules the light with harmony, and bringsThe ...
[Month of) July (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
The Kings come riding back from the Crusade,The purple Kings and all their mounted men;They fill the street with clamorous ...
[Month of] August (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
The soldier month, the bulwark of the year,That never more shall hear such victories told;He stands apparent with his heaven-high ...
[Month of] November (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
November is that historied Emperor,Conquered in age, but foot to foot with fate,Who from his refuge high has heard the ...
[Month of] January (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
It freezes- all across a soundless skyThe birds go home. The governing dark's begun:The steadfast dark that waits not for a ...
July (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
The Kings come riding back from the Crusade,The purple Kings and all their mounted men;They fill the street with clamorous ...
[Month of] December (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Hoar Time about the house betakes him slow,Seeking an entry for his weariness.And in that dreadful company distressAnd the sad ...
[Month of] September (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
I, from a window where the Meuse is wide,Looked eastward out to the September night;The men that in the hopeless ...
[Month of] March (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
The north-cast wind has come from Norroway,Roaring he came above the white waves' tips!The foam of the loud sea was ...
September (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
I, from a window where the Meuse is wide,Looked eastward out to the September night;The men that in the hopeless ...
Because My Faltering Feet (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Because my faltering feet may fail to dareThe first descendant of the steps of HellGive me the Word in time ...
[Month of] June (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Rise up, and do begin the day's adorning;The Summer dark is but the dawn of day.The last of sunset fades ...
Ha’nacker Mill (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Sally is gone that was so kindly,Sally is gone from Ha'nacker HillAnd the Briar grows ever since then so blindly;And ...
Henry King,{ Who chewed bits of String, and was cut off in Dreadful Agonies} (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
The Chief Defect of Henry KingWas chewing little bits of String.At last he swallowed some which tiedItself in ugly Knots ...
The Night (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Most Holy Night, that still dost keepThe keys of all the doors of sleep,To me when my tired eyelids close Give ...
Song (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening yearYou wear the morning like your dressAnd are with mastery ...
Franklin Hyde (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His UncleHis uncle came on Franklin HydeCarousing in the Dirt.He shook ...
The Microbe (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
The Microbe is so very smallYou cannot make him out at all,But many sanguine people hopeTo see him through a ...
Heretics All (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Heretics all, whoever you may be,In Tarbes or Nimes, or over the sea,You never shall have good words from me.Caritas ...
Hildebrand, Who was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason. (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
"Oh murder! What was that, Papa!""My child, It was a Motor-Car,A most Ingenious Toy!Designed to Captivate and CharmMuch rather than ...
The Yak (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
As a friend to the children commend me the Yak.You will find it exactly the thing:It will carry and fetch, ...
Talking (and Singing) of the Nordic Man (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
IBehold, my child, the Nordic man,And be as like him, as you can;His legs are long, his mind is slow,His ...
The Gnu (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
G stands for Gnu, whose weapon of defenceAre long, sharp, curling horns, and common sense.To these he adds a name ...
Cuckoo! (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
In woods so long time bareCuckoo!Up and in the wood, I know not whereTwo notes fall.Yet I do not envy ...
The Frog (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Be kind and tender to the Frog,And do not call him names,As "Slimy skin," or "Polly-wog,"Or likewise "Ugly James,"Or "Gap-a-grin," ...
And Is It True (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
And is it True ? It is not True.And if it were it wouldnt doFor people such as me and ...