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Poems

by G. K. Chesterton

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  1. 1I — Three Dedications
  2. 2To Hilaire Belloc
  3. 3To M. E. W.
  4. 4II — War Poems
  5. 5The March of the Black Mountain 1913
  6. 6Blessed Are the Peacemakers
  7. 7The Wife of Flanders
  8. 8The Crusader Returns From Captivity
  9. 9III — Love Poems
  10. 10Love’s Trappist
  11. 11Confessional
  12. 12Music
  13. 13The Deluge
  14. 14The Strange Music
  15. 15The Great Minimum
  16. 16The Mortal Answers
  17. 17A Marriage Song
  18. 18Bay Combe
  19. 19IV — Religious Poems
  20. 20The House of Christmas
  21. 21A Song of Gifts to God
  22. 22The Kingdom of Heaven
  23. 23A Hymn for the Church Militant
  24. 24The Beatific Vision
  25. 25The Truce of Christmas
  26. 26A Hymn
  27. 27A Christmas Song for Three Guilds
  28. 28The Nativity
  29. 29A Child of the Snows
  30. 30A Word
  31. 31V — Rhymes for the Times
  32. 32The Revolutionist: Or Lines to a Statesman
  33. 33The Shakespeare Memorial
  34. 34The Horrible History of Jones
  35. 35The New Freethinker
  36. 36In Memoriam P.D.
  37. 37Sonnet With the Compliments of the Season
  38. 38A Song of Swords
  39. 39A Song of Defeat
  40. 40Sonnet
  41. 41Africa
  42. 42The Dead Hero
  43. 43An Election Echo 1906
  44. 44The Song of the Wheels
  45. 45The Secret People
  46. 46VI — Miscellaneous Poems
  47. 47Ballad of the Sun
  48. 48Translation From du Bellay
  49. 49The Higher Unity
  50. 50The Earth’s Vigil
  51. 51On Righteous Indignation
  52. 52When I Came Back to Fleet Street
  53. 53A Cider Song
  54. 54The Last Hero
  55. 55VII — Ballades
  56. 56A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan
  57. 57A Ballade of a Book-Reviewer
  58. 58A Ballade of Suicide
  59. 59A Ballade of the First Rain

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