#English
The phrases of the street are not only forcible but subtle: for a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition. Phrases like “put out” or “off colour” might ha...
The Devil is a gentleman, and ask… At his little place at What’sitsn… They say the sport is splendid; th… And fairy scenes, and fearful feat… He can shoot the feathered cherubs…
As the sea flooding the flat sands Flew on the sea-born horde, The two hosts shocked with dust an… Left of the Latian paladin, Clanged all Prince Harold’s howli…
It is something to have wept as we… It is something to have done as we… It is something to have watched wh… And seen the stars which never see… It is something to have smelt the…
I do not cry, beloved, neither cur… Silence and strength, these two at… He gave me sun and stars and aught… But not a woman’s love; for that i… He sealed her heart from sage and…
From the Wood of the Old Wives’… They glittered out of the grey, And with all the Armies of Elf-la… I strove like a beast at bay; With only a right arm wearied,
When God turned back eternity and… Ancient of Days, grown little for… (As under the low arch the land is… Peered through you, gate of heaven… Or shutting out his shining skies…
[From a souvenir programme produced for a fund raising benefit in London on 14th May 1912, for those affected by the sinking of the Titanic just a month previously. It includes poems an...
When Death was on thy drums, Demo… And with one rush of slaves the wo… In that high dawn that Kings shal… A void there was and Walter was n… Through sacked Versailles, at Val…
There fared a mother driven forth Out of an inn to roam; In the place where she was homeles… All men are at home. The crazy stable close at hand,
G. K. Chesterton’s tribute was pr… Lift up your heads; in life, in de… God knoweth his head was high; Quit we the coward’s broken breath… Who watched a strong man die.
The Symbol The speaking at the Rotary is Pra… The talking at the Rotary turns m… But both require an Emblem; and a… When you argue in a circle and do…
St George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon He drank a pint of English ale Out of an English flagon. For though he fast right readily
Are they clinging to their crosses… F. E. Smith, Where the Breton boat-fleet tosse… Are they, Smith? Do they, fasting, trembling, bleed…
Feast on wine or fast on water And your honour shall stand sure, God Almighty’s son and daughter He the valiant, she the pure; If an angel out of heaven