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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936


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Poem TitleFirst LinesPeriod# Lines# Reads
1: 'Vulgarised' All round they murmur, 'O profane, 24688
2: A Certain Evening That night the whole world mingled, 20636
3: A Chord Of Colour My Lady clad herself in grey, 32655
4: A Christmas Carol The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap, 16621
5: A Christmas Carol God rest you merry gentlemen, 18256
6: A Dedication To E.C.B. He was, through boyhood's storm and shower, 60643
7: A Fairy Tale All things grew upwards, foul and fair: 24618
8: A Man And His Image All day the nations climb and crawl and pray 56593
9: A Novelty Why should I care for the Ages 18598
10: A Portrait Fair faces crowd on Christmas night 20682
11: A Second Childhood When all my days are ending 54248
12: A Song Of Swords In the place called Swords on the Irish road 42762
13: A Wedding In War-Time Our God who made two lovers in a garden, 64253
14: Alone Blessings there are of cradle and of clan, 16558
15: An Alliance This is the weird of a world-old folk, 32540
16: Another Tattered Rhymster In The Ring Another tattered rhymster in the ring, 12721
17: Art Colours On must we go: we search dead leaves, 12724
18: At Night How many million stars there be, 6815
19: Behind I saw an old man like a child, 16549
20: By The Babe Unborn If trees were tall and grasses short, 24655
21: Cyclopean A mountainous and mystic brute 20573
22: E.C.B. Before the grass grew over me, 16553
23: Ecclesiastes There is one sin: to call a green leaf grey, 8617
24: Elegy In A Country Churchyard The men that worked for England 12214
25: Envoy. Clear was the night: the moon was young: 36637
26: Eternities I cannot count the pebbles in the brook. 12576
27: Fantasia The happy men that lose their heads 30232
28: Femina Contra Mundum The sun was black with judgment, and the moon 20552
29: For A War Memorial The hucksters haggle in the mart 16222
30: For Four Guilds: I. The Glass-Stainers To every Man his Mystery, 24238
31: For Four Guilds: II. The Bridge-Builders In the world's whitest morning 48273
32: For Four Guilds: III. The Stone-Masons We have graven the mountain of God with hands, 32217
33: For Four Guilds: IV. The Bell-Ringers The angels are singing like birds in a tree 48243
34: Gold Leaves Lo! I am come to autumn, 16587
35: Good News Between a meadow and a cloud that sped 16695
36: Joseph If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams 16609
37: King's Cross Station This circled cosmos whereof man is god 12530
38: Mediævalism If men should rise and return to the noise and time of the tourney, 32243
39: Memory If I ever go back to Baltimore, 24271
40: Modern Elfland I Cut a staff in a churchyard copse, 32601
41: Nightmare The silver and violet leopard of the night 40271
42: Of The Dangers Attending Altruism On The High Seas. Observe these Pirates bold and gay, 69684
43: On The Disastrous Spread Of Æstheticism In All Classes. Impetuously I sprang from bed, 72605
44: On The Downs When you came over the top of the world 60218
45: Poland Augurs that watched archaic birds 24226
46: Songs Of Education: I. History The Roman threw us a road, a road, 50360
47: Songs Of Education: II. Geography The earth is a place on which England is found, 35263
48: Songs Of Education: III. For The Crêche I remember my mother, the day that we met, 26244
49: Songs Of Education: IV. Citizenship How slowly learns the child at school 36218
50: Songs Of Education: V. The Higher Mathematics Twice one is two, 30296
51: Songs Of Education: VI. Hygiene When Science taught mankind to breathe 32245
52: Sonnet High on the wall that holds Jerusalem 14234
53: Sonnet To A Stilton Cheese Stilton, thou shouldst be living at this hour 14730
54: The Ancient Of Days A child sits in a sunny place, 16628
55: The Ballad Of God-Makers A bird flew out at the break of day 561322
56: The Ballad Of St. Barbara When the long grey lines came flooding upon Paris in the plain, 184247
57: The Ballad Of The Battle Of Gibeon Five kings rule o'er the Amorite, 128710
58: The Ballad Of The White Horse Of great limbs gone to chaos, 2692594
59: The Beatific Vision Through what fierce incarnations, furled 12608
60: The Convert After one moment when I bowed my head 14246
61: The Desecraters Witness all: that unrepenting, 16500
62: The Donkey When fishes flew and forests walked 16548
63: The Earth's Shame Name not his deed: in shuddering and in haste 16571
64: The End Of Fear Though the whole heaven be one-eyed with the moon, 24570
65: The English Graves Were I that wandering citizen whose city is the world, 18269
66: The Escape We watched you building, stone by stone, 45689
67: The Fish Dark the sea was: but I saw him, 20595
68: The Happy Man To teach the grey earth like a child, 12569
69: The Holy Of Holies Elder father, though thine eyes 16538
70: The Hope Of The Streets The still sweet meadows shimmered: and I stood 12520
71: The Human Tree Many have Earth's lovers been, 28622
72: The Hunting Of The Dragon When we went hunting the Dragon 52265
73: The Lamp Post Laugh your best, O blazoned forests, 32557
74: The Last Masquerade A wan new garment of young green 12600
75: The Mariner The violet scent is sacred 20560
76: The Mirror Of Madmen I dreamed a dream of heaven, white as frost, 32563
77: The Mystery If sunset clouds could grow on trees 16264
78: The Myth Of Arthur O learned man who never learned to learn, 18287
79: The Old Song A livid sky on London 50226
80: The Oneness Of The Philosopher With Nature. I love to see the little stars 48644
81: The Outlaw Priest, is any song-bird stricken? 16555
82: The Pessimist You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go 20559
83: The Philanthropist Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe decrease 20297
84: The Praise Of Dust What of vile dust?' the preacher said. 28558
85: The Red Sea Our souls shall be Leviathans 32242
86: The Skeleton Chattering finch and water-fly 8601
87: The Song Of Elf Blue-eyed was Elf the minstrel, 3667
88: The Song Of The Children The World is ours till sunset, 20562
89: The Sword Of Surprise Sunder me from my bones, O sword of God, 16227
90: The Trinkets A wandering world of rivers, 24263
91: The Triumph Of Man I plod and peer amid mean sounds and shapes, 12589
92: The Two Women Lo! very fair is she who knows the ways 8715
93: The Unpardonable Sin I do not cry, beloved, neither curse. 16528
94: The Wild Knight The wasting thistle whitens on my crest, 41666
95: The Wild Knight Above the porch a grotesque carved bracket, supporting a lantern. 491753
96: The Wood-Cutter We came behind him by the wall, 24701
97: The World's Lover My eyes are full of lonely mirth: 28651
98: Thou Shalt Not Kill I had grown weary of him; of his breath 18597
99: To A Certain Nation We will not let thee be, for thou art ours. 24538
100: To Captain Fryatt Trampled yet red is the last of the embers, 16274
101: To F. C. In Memoriam Palestine, '19 Do you remember one immortal 32223
102: To Hilaire Belloc For every tiny town or place 40691
103: To Them That Mourn Lift up your heads: in life, in death, 1898 28541
104: Ultimate The vision of a haloed host 8569
105: Vanity A wan sky greener than the lawn, 16591




About:
Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an influential English writer of the early 20th century. His diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction.


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