Poets/G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

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A mountainous and mystic brute …

G. K. Chesterton

The men that worked for England …

G. K. Chesterton

The hucksters haggle in the mart …

G. K. Chesterton

White founts falling in the courts of the sun, …

G. K. Chesterton

I cut a staff in a churchyard copse, …

G. K. Chesterton

A bird flew out at the break of day …

G. K. Chesterton

After one moment when I bowed my head …

G. K. Chesterton

When fishes flew and forests walked …

G. K. Chesterton

Before the Roman came to Rye or out to Severn strode, …

G. K. Chesterton

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