Verses
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416 pages of moral instruction!Seven books in one!381 inspiring pictures!The English-speaking world is divided into those who have already learned and inwardly digested Hilaire Belloc's cautionary verses, and those for whom that pleasure is still in store in the pages of the present volume. All the seven original books are here reprinted together, with all the original edifying illustrations by B.T.B. and Nicolas Bentley. The original square album format has been retained.The world will be undeniably a worse place when Freud supersedes Belloc, and children and their maladjusted parents are no ...
Chapters (190)(click to expand)
- VERSES
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- TO DIVES
- STANZAS WRITTEN ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE DURING A SOUTH-WESTERLY GALE
- THE SOUTH COUNTRY
- THE FANATIC
- NOËL
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- THE EARLY MORNING
- THE BIRDS
- OUR LORD AND OUR LADY
- IN A BOAT
- COURTESY
- THE NIGHT
- THE LEADER
- A BIVOUAC
- I
- II
- III
- TO THE BALLIOL MEN STILL IN AFRICA
- VERSES TO A LORD
- THE REBEL
- THE PROPHET LOST IN THE HILLS AT EVENING
- SONG
- I
- II
- THE RING
- CUCKOO!
- THE MIRROR
- THE LITTLE SERVING MAID
- I
- II
- III
- IV
- V
- VI
- THE END OF THE ROAD
- AUVERGNAT
- DRINKING SONG
- DRINKING DIRGE
- ENVOI
- WEST SUSSEX DRINKING SONG
- A BALLAD ON SOCIOLOGICAL ECONOMICS
- AN ORACLE
- HERETICS ALL
- THE DEATH AND LAST CONFESSION OF WANDERING PETER
- DEDICATORY ODE
- FOOTNOTES:
- DEDICATION ON THE GIFT OF A BOOK TO A CHILD
- DEDICATION OF A CHILD’S BOOK OF IMAGINARY TALES
- HOMAGE
- I
- II
- FILLE-LA-HAINE
- THE MOON’S FUNERAL
- I
- II
- THE HAPPY JOURNALIST
- LINES TO A DON
- NEWDIGATE POEM
- FOOTNOTES:
- THE YELLOW MUSTARD
- ON HYGIENE
- THE FALSE HEART
- SONNET UPON GOD, THE WINE GIVER
- THE POLITICIAN OR THE IRISH EARLDOM
- SHORT BALLAD AND POSTSCRIPT ON CONSOLS
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