STANZAS WRITTEN ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE DURING A SOUTH-WESTERLY GALE TO THE BALLIOL MEN STILL IN AFRICA THE PROPHET LOST IN THE HILLS AT EVENING A BALLAD ON SOCIOLOGICAL ECONOMICS THE DEATH AND LAST CONFESSION OF WANDERING PETER DEDICATION ON THE GIFT OF A BOOK TO A CHILD DEDICATION OF A CHILD'S BOOK OF IMAGINARY TALES SONNET UPON GOD, THE WINE GIVER THE POLITICIAN OR THE IRISH EARLDOM SHORT BALLAD AND POSTSCRIPT ON CONSOLS VERSES BY H. BELLOC VERSESBy With an Introduction NEW YORK Copyright, 1916, By To JOHN SWINNERTON PHILLIMORE A DEDICATION When you and I were little tiny boys We took a most impertinent delight In foolish, painted and misshapen toys That hidden mothers brought to us at night. Do you that have the child’s diviner part— The dear content a love familiar brings— Take these imperfect toys, till in your heart They too attain the form of perfect things? |