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Born in May 29, 1874 / Died in June 14, 1936 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The Great Minimum

... furled, Perilous ancient passions, strange and high ...

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To F. C. In Memoriam Palestine, '19

...   Where Life was slain and Truth was slandered ...

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The Beatific Vision

...   In the last time when all is told, ...

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The Logical Vegetarian

... goblets with the blood of bulls and elephants, as all conventional meat-eaters do, I suppose"-Dalroy ...

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Wine and Water

... But they all were small to the cellar he took when he set out to sail, ...

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The Aristocrat

... There are things you need not know of, though you live and die in vain, ...

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Songs Of Education: II. Geography

...   Thus Brahmins are born for the rice-field, and thus, ...

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Fantasia

...   And keep his head and keep his heart, ...

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The Fish

...   'He shall laugh'--the prophet said ...

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The Old Song

... Of pagents pale in thunder-light, 'twixt thunderload and thunderlight, ...

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Modern Elfland

...   That strange land's light was still its own ...

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A Certain Evening

... The sea had climbed the mountain peaks, ...

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Poland

...   Will prove in matching plume with plume ...

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A Ballade of Suicide

... Perhaps the rector's mother will not call- I fancy that I heard from Mr ...

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Behind

... I have looked for the gleam of the sphere of spheres ...