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Poems
G. K. Chesterton
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this book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton includes 59 poems on a variety of subjects. Included in this are war poems, love poems, religious poems, ballades and more.
this book of poetry by G.K. Chesterton includes 59 poems on a variety of subjects. Included in this are war poems, love poems, religious poems, ballades and more.
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Glory and truth not one but two:
King, Constable, and Amirail
Took me like trumpets: but I knew
A blacker thing than blood's own dye
Weighed down great Hawkins on the sea;
And Nelson turned his blindest eye
On Naples and on liberty.
Therefore to you my thanks, O throne,
O thousandfold and frozen folk,
For whose cold frenzies all your own
The Battle of the Rivers broke;
Who have no faith a man could mourn.
Nor freedom any man desires;
But in a new clean light of scorn
Close up my quarrel with my sires;
Who bring my English heart to me,
Who mend me like a broken toy;
Till I can see you fight and flee,
And laugh as if I were a boy.
THE WIFE OF FLANDERS
Low and brown barns thatched and repatched and tattered
Where I had seven sons until to-day,
A litt. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
The fourth Chesterton book I've read, though the first collection of his poetry. He's a talented poet with a vivid imagination and passion for history and reform. Lepanto is an all-time classic. But the collection also spotlights GKC's most obnoxious habits - his militant Catholicism, sneering dista
Not GK's forte. Dated. Uninspiring . . .
. . . at least for me; perhaps more so for an early 20th Century Englishman. I look for the profound in poems, not the glib and the clever.
ENGLISH: "Lepanto" I had read before. A few favorite quotes:
a) From the poem "To M.E.W.":
The pale leaf falls in pallor, but the green leaf turns to gold;
We that have found it good to be young shall find it good to be old;
Life that bringeth the marriage bell, the cradle and the grave,
Life that is me
I don’t find Chesterton to be a great poet. I prefer his prose in Orthodoxy, but there were at least two highlights here (of... uh... 50 poems): The Great Minimum (a great assessment of desire) and The Ballad of Suicide (quite funny).
An incarnation of Shakespeare. Luscious!
I found these poems pleasant enough but not nearly up to the standard of Chesterton's prose works. Think of a nice little collection of butter knives where one expected a perfectly-crafted sword and you'll have the idea.
Chesterton is always a pleasure to read. It is a fantastic book with well composed theopoems.