Let thunder break on man and beast and birdĪnd the lightning.

Yea, blessed are our eyes for they have seen: Lo, blessed are our ears for they have heard Life that is mean to the mean of heart, and only brave to the brave. Life that bringeth the marriage bell, the cradle and the grave, We that have found it good to be young shall find it good to be old The pale leaf falls in pallor, but the green leaf turns to gold

He also edited his own newspaper, G.K.’s Weekly.Ĭhesterton was equally at ease with literary and social criticism, history, politics, economics, philosophy, and theology.ĮNGLISH: 'Lepanto' I had read before. He wrote over 4000 newspaper essays, including 30 years worth of weekly columns for the Illustrated London News, and 13 years of weekly columns for the Daily News. In spite of his literary accomplishments, he considered himself primarily a journalist. He wrote a hundred books, contributions to 200 more, hundreds of poems, including the epic Ballad of the White Horse, five plays, five novels, and some two hundred short stories, including a popular series featuring the priest-detective, Father Brown. In 1900, he was asked to contribute a few magazine articles on art criticism, and went on to become one of the most prolific writers of all time. Paul’s, and went to art school at University College London. Gilbert Keith Chesterton was an English writer, philosopher, lay theologian, and literary and art critic.

Contents Include: Three Dedications - To Edmund Clerihew Bentley - To Hilaire Belloc - To M.E.W - War Poems - Lepanto - The March of the Black Mountain 1913 - Blessed are the Peacemakers - The Wife of Flanders - The Crusader Returns from Captivity - LOVE POEMS: - Glencoe - Love's Trappist - Confessional - Music - The Deluge - The Strange Music - The Great Minimum - The Mortal Answers -The Marriage Song - Bay Combe - RELIGIOUS POEMS: The Wise Men - The House of Christmas - A Song of gifts to God - The Kingdom of Heaven - A Hymn for the Church Militant - The Beatific Vision - The Truce of Christmas - A Hymn - A Christmas Song for Three Guilds - The Nativity - A Child of the Snows - A Word - RHYMES FOR THE TIMES: Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom - An Ode - The Revolutionist, or Lines to a Statesman - The Shakespeare Memorial - The Horrible History of Jones - The New Freethinker - In Memoriam P.D - Sonnet with the Compliments of the Season - A Song of Swords - A Song of Defeat - Sonnet - Africa - The Dead Hero - An Election Echo - The Song of the Wheels - The Secret People - MISCELLANEOUS POEMS: Lost - Ballad of the Sun - Translation from Du Bellay - The Higher Unity - The Earth's Vigil - On Righteous Indignation - When I Came Back to Fleet Street - A Cider Song - The Last Hero - BALLADES: Ballade D'Une Grande Dame - A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan - A Ballade of a Book Reviewer - A Ballade of Suicide - A Ballade of the First Rain

A Ballade of Suicide by G.K. Chesterton