The Wild Knight - Classic Reprint Author:G. K. Chesterton I leave these verses as they stand, although they contain innumerable examples of what I now see to be errors of literature, and one or two examples of what I have come to think errors of opinion. But they never had any great merit beyond genuineness, and I do not wish to spoil that by mixing up two periods of my life. On two definite matters he... more »re embodied in verse I have altered my opinion j and if I mention what they are I really do not mean it for egoism, but only for honesty.
In the matter of the 1 Anglo-American Alliance,'1 I have come to see that our hopes of brotherhood with America are the same in kind as our hopes of brotherhood with any other of the great independent nations of Christendom. And a very small study of history was
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PREFATORY NOTE xi; BV TH*E BABE UNBORN 2; THE WORLD'S LOVER 4; THE SKELETON 6; A CHORD OF COLOUR 7; THE HAPPY MAN IO; THE UNPARDONABLE SIN ,11; A NOVELTY 13; ULTIMATE 15; THE DONKEY 16; THE BEATIFIC VISION 18; THE HOPE OF THE STREETS 19; ECCLESIASTES 20; THE SONG OF THE CHILDREN 21; THE FISH 23; GOLD LEAVES - 25; THOU SHALT NOT KILL 27; A CERTAIN EVENING 29; A MAN AND HIS IMAGE 31; THE MARINER 3j; THE TRIUMPH OF MAN «37; CYCLOPEAN 38; JOSEPH 40; MODERN ELFLAND 42; ETERNITIES 45; A CHRISTMAS CAROL 46; ALONB 4§; KING'S CROSS STATION 50; THE HUMAN TREE 51; TO THEM THAT MOURN -53; THE OUTLAW 55; BEHIND J7; THE END OF FEAR 59; THE HOLY OF HOLIES 61; THE MIRROR OF MADMEN 63; E C, B ,66; THE DU5ECRAT0RS 68; AN ALLIANCE 70; THE ANCIENT OF DAYS -73; THE LAST MASQUERADE 75; THE EARTH'S SHAME 76; VANITY 78; THE LAMP POST 80; THE PESSIMIST 83; A FAIRY TALE 86; A PORTRAIT 88; FEMINA CONTRA MUNDUM 90; TO A CERTAIN NATION 92; THE PRAISE OF DUST 94; THE BALLAD OF THE BATTLE OF G1BEON 96; 'VULGARISED' 104; THE BALLAD OF GOD-MAKERS 106; AT NIGHT - 110; THE WOOD-CUTTER Ill; ART COLOURS 113; THE TWO WOMEN 114; THE WILD KNIGHT 115; GOOD NEWS 14^; THE NEGLECTED CHILD 150« less