Hilaire Belloc's Poetry, by title

• A Moral Alphabet (excerpt)

  D: The Dreadful Dinotherium he
  Will have to do his best for D.

  27 lines
• A Trinity

  Of three in One and One in three
  My narrow mind would doubting be

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Algernon

  Young Algernon, the Doctor's Son,
  Was playing with a Loaded Gun

  10 lines, 2 comments
• An Author’s Hope

  When I am dead, I hope it may be said:
  ‘His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.’

  2 lines
• Ballade Of Modest Confession

  My reading is extremely deep and wide;
  And as our modern education goes—

  32 lines
• Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa

  I
  Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold

  32 lines
• Because My Faltering Feet

  Because my faltering feet may fail to dare
  The first descendant of the steps of Hell

  14 lines
• Cautionary Tales for Children: Introduction

  And is it True? It is not True.
  And if it were it wouldn’t do,

  12 lines, 1 comment
• Charles Augustus Fortescue, Who always Did what was Right, and so accumulated an Immense Fortune.

  The nicest child I ever knew
  Was Charles Augustus Fortescue.

  32 lines, 1 comment
• Courtesy

  Of Courtesy, it is much less
  Than Courage of Heart or Holiness,

  32 lines
• Criterion

  When you are mixed with many I descry
  A single light, and judge the rest thereby.

  4 lines
• Cuckoo!

  In woods so long time bare
  Cuckoo!

  18 lines
• Drinking Song, On the Excellence of Burgundy Wine

  My jolly fat host with your face all a-grin,
  Come, open the door to us, let us come in.

  21 lines, 1 comment
• Epitah on the Politician Himself

  Here richly, with ridiculous display,
  The Politician's corpse was laid away.

  20 lines
• Epitaph on the Favourite Dog of a Politician

  Here lies a Dog.- may every Dog that dies
  Lie in security - as this Dog lies.

  3 lines
• Fatigue

  I'm tired of Love: I'm still more tired of Rhyme.
  But Money gives me pleasure all the time.

  3 lines
• Franklin Hyde

  Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle
  His uncle came on Franklin Hyde

  22 lines, 1 comment
• From: Dedicatory Ode

    I will not try the reach again,
      I will not set my sail alone,

  23 lines
• George, Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions.

  When George's Grandmamma was told
  That George had been as good as gold,

  34 lines
• Godolphin Horne,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,

  46 lines
• Ha'nacker Mill

  Sally is gone that was so kindly,
  Sally is gone from Ha'nacker Hill

  15 lines
• Habitations

  Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties,
  And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

  2 lines, 1 comment
• Henry King,{ Who chewed bits of String, and was cut off in Dreadful Agonies}

  The Chief Defect of Henry King
  Was chewing little bits of String.

  18 lines
• Her Final Role

  This man's desire; that other's hopeless end;
  A third's capricious tyrant: and my friend.

  2 lines
• Heretics All

  Heretics all, whoever you may be,
  In Tarbes or Nimes, or over the sea,

  16 lines
• Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine

  To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,
  To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend

  213 lines
• Hildebrand, Who was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason.

  "Oh murder! What was that, Papa!"
  "My child, It was a Motor-Car,

  18 lines
• Introduction: More Beasts for Worse Children

  The parents of the learned child
  (His father and his mother)

  30 lines
• Introduction: The Bad Child's Book of Beasts

  I call you bad, my little child,
  Upon the title page,

  24 lines, 2 comments
• Is there any reward?

  Is there any reward?
  I'm beginning to doubt it.

  8 lines

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