The Wild Knight and Other Poems. Гилберт Кит Честертон

Skeleton

        A Chord of Colour

        The Happy Man

        The Unpardonable Sin

        A Novelty

        Ultimate

        The Donkey

        The Beatific Vision

        The Hope of the Streets

        Ecclesiastes

        Song of the Children

        The Fish

        Gold Leaves

        Thou Shalt Not Kill a Certain Evening

        A Man and His Image

        The Mariner

        The Triumph of Man

        Cyclopean

        Joseph

        Modern Elfland

        Eternities

        A Christmas Carol

        Alone

        King’s Cross Station

        The Human Tree

        To Them That Mourn

        The Outlaw

        Behind

        The End of Fear

        The Holy of Holies

        The Mirror of Madmen

        E. C. B.

        The Desecraters

        An Alliance

        The Ancient of Days

        The Last Masquerade

        The Earth’s Shame

        Vanity

        The Lamp Post

        The Pessimist

        A Fairy Tale

        A Portrait

        Femina Contra Mundum

        To a Certain Nation

        The Praise of Dust

        The Ballad of the Battle of Gibeon

        ‘Vulgarised'

        The Ballad of God-Makers

        At Night

        The Woodcutter

        Art Colours

        The Two Women

        The Wild Knight

      Another tattered rhymster in the ring,With but the old plea to the sneering schools,That on him too, some secret night in springCame the old frenzy of a hundred foolsTo make some thing: the old want dark and deep,The thirst of men, the hunger of the stars,Since first it tinged even the Eternal's sleep,With monstrous dreams of trees and towns and mars.When all He made for the first time He saw,Scattering stars as misers shake their pelf.Then in the last strange wrath broke His own law,And made a graven image of Himself.

      By the Babe Unborn

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      If trees were tall and grasses short,

      As in some crazy tale,

       If here and there a sea were blue

      Beyond the breaking pale,