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Title: The Wild Knight and Other Poems
Author: Gilbert Chesterton
Release Date: April 15, 2004 [EBook #12037]
Language: English
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THE WILD KNIGHT
AND OTHER POEMS
BY
GILBERT CHESTERTON
1900
NOTE
My thanks are due to the Editors of the Outlook_ and the _Speaker for the kind permission they have given me to reprint a considerable number of the following poems. They have been selected and arranged rather with a view to unity of spirit than to unity of time or value; many of them being juvenile.
CONTENTS
BY THE BABE UNBORN
THE WORLD'S LOVER
THE SKELETON
A CHORD OF COLOUR
THE HAPPY MAN
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN
A NOVELTY
ULTIMATE
THE DONKEY
THE BEATIFIC VISION
THE HOPE OF THE STREETS
ECCLES