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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, 24458
2: A Certain Evening That night the whole world mingled, 20348
3: A Chord Of Colour My Lady clad herself in grey, 32368
4: A Christmas Carol The Christ-child lay on Mary's lap, 16331
5: A Christmas Carol God rest you merry gentlemen, 1811
6: A Dedication To E.C.B. He was, through boyhood's storm and shower, 60365
7: A Fairy Tale All things grew upwards, foul and fair: 24327
8: A Man And His Image All day the nations climb and crawl and pray 56321
9: A Novelty Why should I care for the Ages 18332
10: A Portrait Fair faces crowd on Christmas night 20326
11: A Second Childhood When all my days are ending 549
12: A Song Of Swords In the place called Swords on the Irish road 42462
13: A Wedding In War-Time Our God who made two lovers in a garden, 645
14: Alone Blessings there are of cradle and of clan, 16322
15: An Alliance This is the weird of a world-old folk, 32304
16: Another Tattered Rhymster In The Ring Another tattered rhymster in the ring, 12468
17: Art Colours On must we go: we search dead leaves, 12488
18: At Night How many million stars there be, 6490
19: Behind I saw an old man like a child, 16302
20: By The Babe Unborn If trees were tall and grasses short, 24397
21: Cyclopean A mountainous and mystic brute 20331
22: E.C.B. Before the grass grew over me, 16305
23: Ecclesiastes There is one sin: to call a green leaf grey, 8344
24: Elegy In A Country Churchyard The men that worked for England 128
25: Envoy. Clear was the night: the moon was young: 36336
26: Eternities I cannot count the pebbles in the brook. 12320
27: Fantasia The happy men that lose their heads 3011
28: Femina Contra Mundum The sun was black with judgment, and the moon 20321
29: For A War Memorial The hucksters haggle in the mart 1612
30: For Four Guilds: I. The Glass-Stainers To every Man his Mystery, 2410
31: For Four Guilds: II. The Bridge-Builders In the world's whitest morning 4812
32: For Four Guilds: III. The Stone-Masons We have graven the mountain of God with hands, 3210
33: For Four Guilds: IV. The Bell-Ringers The angels are singing like birds in a tree 4812
34: Gold Leaves Lo! I am come to autumn, 16341
35: Good News Between a meadow and a cloud that sped 16468
36: Joseph If the stars fell; night's nameless dreams 16341
37: King's Cross Station This circled cosmos whereof man is god 12296
38: Mediævalism If men should rise and return to the noise and time of the tourney, 325
39: Memory If I ever go back to Baltimore, 246
40: Modern Elfland I Cut a staff in a churchyard copse, 32325
41: Nightmare The silver and violet leopard of the night 4025
42: Of The Dangers Attending Altruism On The High Seas. Observe these Pirates bold and gay, 69365
43: On The Disastrous Spread Of Æstheticism In All Classes. Impetuously I sprang from bed, 72331
44: On The Downs When you came over the top of the world 609
45: Poland Augurs that watched archaic birds 246
46: Songs Of Education: I. History The Roman threw us a road, a road, 506
47: Songs Of Education: II. Geography The earth is a place on which England is found, 3512
48: Songs Of Education: III. For The Crêche I remember my mother, the day that we met, 2611
49: Songs Of Education: IV. Citizenship How slowly learns the child at school 368
50: Songs Of Education: V. The Higher Mathematics Twice one is two, 306
51: Songs Of Education: VI. Hygiene When Science taught mankind to breathe 3211
52: Sonnet High on the wall that holds Jerusalem 145
53: Sonnet To A Stilton Cheese Stilton, thou shouldst be living at this hour 14468
54: The Ancient Of Days A child sits in a sunny place, 16346
55: The Ballad Of God-Makers A bird flew out at the break of day 56845
56: The Ballad Of St. Barbara When the long grey lines came flooding upon Paris in the plain, 1847
57: The Ballad Of The Battle Of Gibeon Five kings rule o'er the Amorite, 128444
58: The Ballad Of The White Horse Of great limbs gone to chaos, 2692356
59: The Beatific Vision Through what fierce incarnations, furled 12322
60: The Convert After one moment when I bowed my head 146
61: The Desecraters Witness all: that unrepenting, 16292
62: The Donkey When fishes flew and forests walked 16315
63: The Earth's Shame Name not his deed: in shuddering and in haste 16305
64: The End Of Fear Though the whole heaven be one-eyed with the moon, 24307
65: The English Graves Were I that wandering citizen whose city is the world, 188
66: The Escape We watched you building, stone by stone, 45439
67: The Fish Dark the sea was: but I saw him, 20319
68: The Happy Man To teach the grey earth like a child, 12329
69: The Holy Of Holies Elder father, though thine eyes 16294
70: The Hope Of The Streets The still sweet meadows shimmered: and I stood 12302
71: The Human Tree Many have Earth's lovers been, 28357
72: The Hunting Of The Dragon When we went hunting the Dragon 5210
73: The Lamp Post Laugh your best, O blazoned forests, 32308
74: The Last Masquerade A wan new garment of young green 12341
75: The Mariner The violet scent is sacred 20328
76: The Mirror Of Madmen I dreamed a dream of heaven, white as frost, 32305
77: The Mystery If sunset clouds could grow on trees 163
78: The Myth Of Arthur O learned man who never learned to learn, 187
79: The Old Song A livid sky on London 508
80: The Oneness Of The Philosopher With Nature. I love to see the little stars 48354
81: The Outlaw Priest, is any song-bird stricken? 16303
82: The Pessimist You that have snarled through the ages, take your answer and go 20306
83: The Philanthropist Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe decrease 2011
84: The Praise Of Dust What of vile dust?' the preacher said. 28314
85: The Red Sea Our souls shall be Leviathans 323
86: The Skeleton Chattering finch and water-fly 8345
87: The Song Of The Children The World is ours till sunset, 20327
88: The Sword Of Surprise Sunder me from my bones, O sword of God, 1613
89: The Trinkets A wandering world of rivers, 246
90: The Triumph Of Man I plod and peer amid mean sounds and shapes, 12327
91: The Two Women Lo! very fair is she who knows the ways 8449
92: The Unpardonable Sin I do not cry, beloved, neither curse. 16313
93: The Wild Knight The wasting thistle whitens on my crest, 41438
94: The Wild Knight Above the porch a grotesque carved bracket, supporting a lantern. 491432
95: The Wood-Cutter We came behind him by the wall, 24455
96: The World's Lover My eyes are full of lonely mirth: 28348
97: Thou Shalt Not Kill I had grown weary of him; of his breath 18306
98: To A Certain Nation We will not let thee be, for thou art ours. 24296
99: To Captain Fryatt Trampled yet red is the last of the embers, 168
100: To F. C. In Memoriam Palestine, '19 Do you remember one immortal 327
101: To Hilaire Belloc For every tiny town or place 40441
102: To Them That Mourn Lift up your heads: in life, in death, 1898 28326
103: Ultimate The vision of a haloed host 8333
104: Vanity A wan sky greener than the lawn, 16333




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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