Poems By G. K. Chesterton

Contents Three Dedications To Edmund Clerihew Bentley To Hilaire Belloc To M.E.W War Poems Lepanto The March of the Black Mountain 1913 Blessed are the Peacemakers The Wife of Flanders The Crusader Returns from Captivity LOVE Glencoe Love’s Trappist Confessional Music The Deluge The Strange Music The Great Minimum The Mortal Answers The Marriage Song Bay Combe RELIGIOUS The Wise Men The House of Christmas A Song of gifts to God The Kingdom of Heaven A Hymn for the Church Militant The Beatific Vision The Truce of Christmas A Hymn A Christmas Song for Three Guilds The Nativity A Child of the Snows A Word RHYMES FOR THE Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom An Ode The Revolutionist, or Lines to a Statesman The Shakespeare Memorial The Horrible History of Jones The New Freethinker In Memoriam P.D Sonnet with the Compliments of the Season A Song of Swords A Song of Defeat Sonnet Africa The Dead Hero An Election Echo The Song of the Wheels The Secret People MISCELLANEOUS Lost Ballad of the Sun Translation from Du Bellay The Higher Unity The Earth’s Vigil On Righteous Indignation When I Came Back to Fleet Street A Cider Song The Last Hero Ballade D’Une Grande Dame A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan A Ballade of a Book Reviewer A Ballade of Suicide A Ballade of the First Rain