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Author
Belloc, Hilaire, 1870-1953
Credits
Produced by Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject
English poetry -- 20th century
Category
Text
eBook-No.
60487
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60487
Release Date
October 13, 2019
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.VERSES
  2. 2.CONTENTS
  3. 3.INTRODUCTION — II — III — IV — V
  4. 4.TO DIVES
  5. 5.STANZAS WRITTEN ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE DURING A SOUTH-WESTERLY GALE
  6. 6.THE SOUTH COUNTRY
  7. 7.THE FANATIC
  8. 8.NOËL — I — II — III — IV
  9. 9.THE EARLY MORNING
  10. 10.THE BIRDS
  11. 11.OUR LORD AND OUR LADY
  12. 12.IN A BOAT
  13. 13.COURTESY
  14. 14.THE NIGHT
  15. 15.THE LEADER
  16. 16.A BIVOUAC — I — II — III
  17. 17.TO THE BALLIOL MEN STILL IN AFRICA
  18. 18.VERSES TO A LORD
  19. 19.THE REBEL
  20. 20.THE PROPHET LOST IN THE HILLS AT EVENING
  21. 21.SONG — I — II
  22. 22.THE RING
  23. 23.CUCKOO!
  24. 24.THE MIRROR
  25. 25.THE LITTLE SERVING MAID — I — II — III — IV — V — VI
  26. 26.THE END OF THE ROAD
  27. 27.AUVERGNAT
  28. 28.DRINKING SONG
  29. 29.DRINKING DIRGE — ENVOI
  30. 30.WEST SUSSEX DRINKING SONG
  31. 31.A BALLAD ON SOCIOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
  32. 32.AN ORACLE
  33. 33.HERETICS ALL
  34. 34.THE DEATH AND LAST CONFESSION OF WANDERING PETER
  35. 35.DEDICATORY ODE — FOOTNOTES:
  36. 36.DEDICATION ON THE GIFT OF A BOOK TO A CHILD
  37. 37.DEDICATION OF A CHILD’S BOOK OF IMAGINARY TALES
  38. 38.HOMAGE — I — II
  39. 39.FILLE-LA-HAINE
  40. 40.THE MOON’S FUNERAL — I — II
  41. 41.THE HAPPY JOURNALIST
  42. 42.LINES TO A DON
  43. 43.NEWDIGATE POEM — FOOTNOTES:
  44. 44.THE YELLOW MUSTARD
  45. 45.ON HYGIENE
  46. 46.THE FALSE HEART
  47. 47.SONNET UPON GOD, THE WINE GIVER
  48. 48.THE POLITICIAN OR THE IRISH EARLDOM
  49. 49.SHORT BALLAD AND POSTSCRIPT ON CONSOLS — I — II — III

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