Hilaire Belloc Poems

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 Still a mystery,

I can’t figure out;

Race home from work,

Where life is without.
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I race to see you,

And hold you to me;

My mind says you’re there,

And my heart won’t see.
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I open...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 1 The golden-rod is yellow; 
2 The corn is turning brown;
3 The trees in apple orchards
4 With fruit are bending down.

5 The gentian's bluest fringes
6 Are curling in the...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As "Slimy skin," or "Polly-wog,"
Or likewise "Ugly James,"
Or "Gap-a-grin," or "Toad-gone-wrong,"
Or "Bill Bandy-knees":
The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 When people call this beast to mind,
 They marvel more and more
At such a little tail behind,
 So large a trunk before....Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably

A trick that everyone abhors
In little girls is slamming doors.
A wealthy banker's little daughter
Who lived in Palace Green, Bayswater
(By name Rebecca Offendort),
Was...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 Lo! a ripe sheaf of many golden days 
Gleaned by the year in autumn's harvest ways, 
With here and there, blood-tinted as an ember, 
Some crimson poppy of a...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 May all my enemies go to hell,
Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 Be kind and tender to the Frog,
And do not call him names,
As "Slimy skin," or "Polly-wog,"
Or likewise "Ugly James,"
Or "Gap-a-grin," or "Toad-gone-wrong,"
Or "Bill Bandy-knees":
The Frog is justly sensitive
To epithets...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,
To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend
Wine, true begetter of all arts that be;
Wine, privilege of the completely free;
Wine the recorder; wine the sagely strong;
Wine,...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 The green elm with the one great bough of gold 
Lets leaves into the grass slip, one by one, -- 
The short hill grass, the mushrooms small milk-white, 
Harebell...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 Sally is gone that was so kindly,
Sally is gone from Ha'nacker Hill
And the Briar grows ever since then so blindly;
And ever since then the clapper is still...
And the sweeps...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 Do you remember an Inn,
Miranda?
Do you remember an Inn?
And the tedding and the bedding
Of the straw for a bedding,
And the fleas that tease in the High Pyrenees,
And the wine...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister was reprimanded by his Father.

Young Algernon, the Doctor's Son,
Was playing with a Loaded Gun.
He pointed it towards his...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 Because my faltering feet may fail to dare
The first descendant of the steps of Hell
Give me the Word in time that triumphs there.
I too must pass into the misty...Read More

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by Belloc, Hilaire

 Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, 
And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise....Read More

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