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| 2551. | Godolphin Horne by Hilaire Belloc | | Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black.
Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born;
He held the Human Race in Scorn,
And lived with a... |
| 2552. | On Torture: A Public Singer by Hilaire Belloc | | Torture will give a dozen pence or more
To keep a drab from bawling at his door.
The public taste is quite a different thing-
Torture is positiv... |
| 2553. | September by Hilaire Belloc | | I, from a window where the Meuse is wide,
Looked eastward out to the September night;
The men that in the hopeless battle died
Rose, and deployed, ... |
| 2555. | The Pacifist by Hilaire Belloc | | Pale Ebenezer thought it wrong to fight,
But Roaring Bill (who killed him) thought it right.... |
| 2556. | On the Ladies of Pixton by Hilaire Belloc | | Three Graces; and the mother were a Grace,
But for profounder meaning in her face.... |
| 2557. | Father Explains by Czeslaw Milosz | | "There where that ray touches the plain
And the shadows escape as if they really ran,
Warsaw stands, open from all sides,
A city not very old but q... |
| 2558. | Ars Poetica? by Czeslaw Milosz | | I have always aspired to a more spacious form
that would be free from the claims of poetry or prose
and would let us understand each other without e... |
| 2559. | Campo di Fiori by Czeslaw Milosz | | In Rome on the Campo di Fiori
Baskets of olives and lemons,
Cobbles spattered with wine
And the wreckage of flowers.
Vendors cover the trestles
W... |
| 2560. | Child of Europe by Czeslaw Milosz | | 1
We, whose lungs fill with the sweetness of day.
Who in May admire trees flowering
Are better than those who perished.
We, who taste of exotic ... |
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