CONTENTS
Hilaire Belloc
PAGE
Introduction
xi
To Dives
1
Stanzas Written on Battersea Bridge During
a South-Westerly Gale
4
The South Country
7
The Fanatic
10
NoËl
14
The Early Morning
16
The Birds
17
Our Lord and Our Lady
18
In a Boat
20
Courtesy
22
The Night
24
The Leader
25
A Bivouac
27
To the Balliol Men Still in Africa
28
Verses to a Lord Who, in the House of Lords,
Said That Those Who Opposed the South
African Adventure Confused Soldiers with
Money-Grubbers
30
The Rebel
32
The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening
34
Song, Inviting the Influence of a Young Lady
upon the Opening Year
36
The Ring
37
Cuckoo
38
The Mirror
39
The Little Serving Maid
40
The End of the Road
43
Auvergnat
45
Drinking Song, on the Excellence of
Burgundy Wine
46
Drinking Dirge
48
West Sussex Drinking Song
50
A Ballad on Sociological Economics
52
An Oracle That Warned the Writer When
on Pilgrimage
54
Heretics All
55
The Death and Last Confession of Wandering
Peter
56
Dedicatory Ode
58
Dedication on the Gift of a Book to a Child
66
Dedication of a Child’s Book of Imaginary
Tales
67
Homage
68
Fille-la-Haine
69
The Moon’s Funeral
70
The Happy Journalist
72
Lines to a Don
74
Newdigate Poem
77
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