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Hilaire Belloc's Poetry, by written

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  • Talking (and Singing) of the Nordic Man
    I
    Behold, my child, the Nordic man,
    15 lines
  • Time Cures All
    It was my shame, and now it is my boast,
    That I have loved you rather more than most.
    2 lines, 2 comments
  • The Telephone
    To-night in million-voiced London I
    Was lonely as the million-pointed sky
    4 lines
  • The Death and Last Confession of Wandering Peter
    When Peter Wanderwide was young
    He wandered everywhere he would:
    41 lines
  • Lord Finchley
    Lord Finchley tried to mend the Electric Light
    Himself. It struck him dead: And serve him right!
    4 lines
  • The Lion
    The Lion, the Lion, he dwells in the Waste,
    He has a big head and a very small waist;
    4 lines, 1 comment
  • The Tiger
    The tiger, on the other hand,
    Is kittenish and mild,
    8 lines, 1 comment
  • The Scorpion
    The Scorpion is as black as soot,
    He dearly loves to bite;
    4 lines
  • The Vulture
    The Vulture eats between his meals,
    And that's the reason why
    8 lines
  • The Microbe
    The Microbe is so very small
    You cannot make him out at all,
    16 lines
  • The South Country
    When I am living in the Midlands
    That are sodden and unkind,
    60 lines
  • The Yak
    As a friend to the children commend me the Yak.
    You will find it exactly the thing:
    14 lines
  • Ha'nacker Mill
    Sally is gone that was so kindly,
    Sally is gone from Ha'nacker Hill
    15 lines
  • Algernon
    Young Algernon, the Doctor's Son,
    Was playing with a Loaded Gun
    10 lines, 2 comments
  • Because My Faltering Feet
    Because my faltering feet may fail to dare
    The first descendant of the steps of Hell
    14 lines
  • Lines For A Christmas Card
    May all my enemies go to hell,
    Noel, Noel, Noel, Noel.
    2 lines, 2 comments
  • The Dromedary
    The Dromedary is a cheerful bird:
    I cannot say the same about the Kurd.
    2 lines
  • Song
    Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year
    You wear the morning like your dress
    17 lines
  • The Night
    Most Holy Night, that still dost keep
    The keys of all the doors of sleep,
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • The Pelagian Drinking Song
    Pelagius lived at Kardanoel
    And taught a doctrine there
    47 lines
  • The Birds
    When Jesus Christ was four years old
    The angels brought Him toys of gold,
    10 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
  • Heretics All
    Heretics all, whoever you may be,
    In Tarbes or Nimes, or over the sea,
    16 lines
  • Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa
    I
    Lady and Queen and Mystery manifold
    32 lines
  • Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine
    To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend,
    To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend
    213 lines
  • Lines to a Don
    Remote and ineffectual Don
    That dared attack my Chesterton,
    59 lines, 1 comment
  • The Elephant
    When people call this beast to mind,
    They marvel more and more
    4 lines
  • The Whale
    The Whale that wanders round the Pole
    Is not a table fish.
    12 lines
  • The Hippopotamus
    I shoot the Hippopotamus
    With bullets made of platinum,
    4 lines
  • The Marmozet
    The species Man and Marmozet
    Are intimately linked;
    4 lines
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