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Sonnets and Verse

by Hilaire Belloc

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2I — Sonnets
  3. 3II — Lyrical, Didactic and Grotesque
  4. 4Stanzas Written on Battersea Bridge During a South-Westerly Gale
  5. 5The South Country
  6. 6The Fanatic
  7. 7The Early Morning
  8. 8Our Lord and Our Lady
  9. 9Courtesy
  10. 10The Night
  11. 11The Leader
  12. 12A Bivouac
  13. 13To the Balliol Men Still in Africa
  14. 14The Rebel
  15. 15The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening
  16. 16The End of the Road
  17. 17An Oracle That Warned the Writer When on Pilgrimage
  18. 18The Death and Last Confession of Wandering Peter
  19. 19Dedicatory Ode
  20. 20Dedication on the Gift of a Book to a Child
  21. 21Dedication of a Child’s Book of Imaginary Tales — Wherein Wrong-Doe…
  22. 22Homage
  23. 23The Moon’s Funeral
  24. 24The Happy Journalist
  25. 25Lines to a Don
  26. 26Newdigate Poem
  27. 27The Yellow Mustard
  28. 28The Politician or the Irish Earldom
  29. 29The Loser
  30. 30III — Songs
  31. 31The Birds
  32. 32In a Boat
  33. 33Song
  34. 34The Ring
  35. 35Cuckoo!
  36. 36The Little Serving Maid
  37. 37Auvergnat
  38. 38Drinking Song on the Excellence of Burgundy Wine
  39. 39Drinking Dirge
  40. 40West Sussex Drinking Song
  41. 41A Ballad on Sociological Economics
  42. 42Heretics All
  43. 43Ha’nacker Mill
  44. 44Tarantella
  45. 45The Chaunty of the “Nona”
  46. 46The Winged Horse
  47. 47Strephon’s Song
  48. 48IV — Ballades
  49. 49Ballade of the Unanswered Question
  50. 50Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa
  51. 51Ballade of Hell and of Mrs Roebeck
  52. 52Ballade of Unsuccessful Men
  53. 53Ballade of the Heresiarchs
  54. 54V — Epigrams
  55. 55VI — The Ballad of Val-Ès-Dunes

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