Poems by Hilaire Belloc
On the Gift of a Book to a Child
... The better things and leave the worse ones: ...
Ballade of Modest Confession
... Envoi Prince! do not let your Nose, your royal Nose, ...
The Rebel
... And plough their gardens deep and through&mdash ...
from A Moral Alphabet
... They bring us the gold when their labours are ended, ...
Criterion
... But when you are alone with me, why then, ...
George, Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions.
... And dreadful shrieks, when, worst of all, ...
Charles Augustus Fortescue, Who always Did what was Right, and so accumulated an Immense Fortune.
... He sought, when it was within his power, ...
Henry King,{ Who chewed bits of String, and was cut off in Dreadful Agonies}
... '' With that, the Wretched Child expires ...
Cautionary Tales for Children: Introduction
... The noble lines that meet your sight, ...
Epitah on the Politician Himself
... Bribed, bullied, swindled and blackmailed for years: ...
The Diamond
... While my strong verse, for ever new, ...
To A Rhinoceros
... You have a horn where other brutes have none: ...
February
... And you shall wake, grown young with perfect sleep, ...
April
... Where the first hedgethorns and white windflowers blow: ...
July
... Formed on the edge of the desert, armoured all, ...
