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Born in May 29, 1874 / Died in June 14, 1936 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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The Song of the Strange Ascetic

... Where his aunts, who are not married, ...

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The Sword of Suprise

... The sins like streaming wounds, the life's brave beat ...

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A Novelty

...   Because they were drear and dry ...

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A Wedding In War-Time

...   Or break our hearts with thine hell-shattering hammer ...

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The Donkey

... Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb, ...

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The Last Hero

... How white their steel, how bright their eyes! I love each laughing knave, ...

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The Last Masquerade

...   Touched, as you turned your soft brown hair ...

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The Strange Music

...  Fiercer than the pain that folds you, softer than your sorrow's name ...

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An Alliance

...   That not till the last link breaks, ...

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The Song against Grocers

... And makes her count and calls her "Miss" ...

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When Fishes Flew

... Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb ...

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Art Colours

...   Blue for seven heavens that had sufficed, ...

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The Desecraters

...   Bid the grinning mummers grieve ...

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Variations of an Air

... I see in you also there are movements, tremors, tears, desire for the melodious, ...

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The End Of Fear

...   Though the dead landscape seem a thing possessed, ...