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The Wild Knight and Other Poems

G. K. Chesterton

Book Overview: 

A collection of poems that tend to revolve around the theme of the wonder of the world. It includes the short, poetic play, "The Wild Knight".

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .And shouted to the stars
To come to play: and down they came
  Splashing in happy wars.

The pine grew apples for a whim,
  The cart-horse built a nest;
The oxen flew, the flowers sang,
  The sun rose in the west.

And 'neath the load of many worlds,
  The lowest life God made
Lifted his huge and heavy limbs
  And into heaven strayed.

To where the highest life God made
  Before His presence stands;
But God himself cried, 'Holiday!'
  And she gave me both her hands.

A MAN AND HIS IMAGE

All day the nations climb and crawl and pray
  In one long pilgrimage to one white shrine,
Where sleeps a saint whose pardon, like his peace,
  Is wide as death, as common, as divine.

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Community Reviews

A collection of poems by Gilbert Chesterton that cover a variety of topics. Some have religious significance. It was an interesting poetry read.

This is a decent collection of poetry from a man not particularly known for being a poet. In places, it shows, but in other places, his rhyming scheme is rather good.

This is a little more interesting than his first collection of poetry, but there is still not much there.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton, who was also known as the “Prince of Paradox”, is one of the most prolific, diverse and influential English writers of 20th century who wrote extensively on topics like journalism, theology, philosophy, poetry, detective fiction, biography and fantasy with equal ease and fl