The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton

The Collected Poems of G.K. Chesterton

This collection consists of over 150 poems written by prominent Catholic thinker G.K. Chesterton. His poems vary from satirical drinking songs to hymns to the Virgin Mary. As such, poems are grouped thematically as comedic poems, chivalrous poems, religious poems, and social and political poems. “Another tattered rhymster in the ring, With but the old plea to the sneering schools, That on him too, some secret night in spring Came the old frenzy of a hundred fools To make some thing: the old want dark and deep, The thirst of men, the hunger of the stars, Since first it tinged even the Eternal’s sleep, With monstrous dreams of trees and towns and mars. When all He made for the first time He saw, Scattering stars as misers shake their pelf. Then in the last strange wrath broke His own law, And made a graven image of Himself.”