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Hilaire Belloc
(1870 - 1953 / La Celle-Saint-Cloud / France)
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81 poems of Hilaire Belloc
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''Like many of the Upper Class He liked the Sound of Broken Glass.''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), British author. "About John," New Cautionary Tales (1930).
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''From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends.''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), British author. "Dedicatory Ode," Verses (1910).
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''The Politician's corpse was laid away.
While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged,
I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged.''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Epitaph on the Politician Himself (l. 2-4). . .
Oxford Book of Satirical Verse, The. Geoffre...
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''Money gives me pleasure all the time.''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Fatigue (l. 2). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. ...
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''I'm tired of Love; I'm still more tired of Rhyme. But money gives me pleasure all the time.''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), British author. "Fatigued," Sonnets and Verse (1923).
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''Wind and Thistle for pipe and dancers
And never a ploughman under the Sun.
Never a ploughman. Never a one.''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Ha'nacker Mill (l. 13-15). . .
Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip L...
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''The Chief Defect of Henry King
Was chewing little bits of String.
At last he swallowed some which tied
Itself in ugly Knots inside.''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Henry King, Who Chewed Bits of String, and Was Early Cut Off in Dreadful Agonies (l. 1-4). . .
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''He slipped his hand and ran away!
He hadn't gone a yard when—Bang!
With open jaws, a lion sprang,
And hungrily began to eat
The boy: beginning at his feet.''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion (l. 18-22). . .
Oxford Book of Chi...
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''always keep a-hold of Nurse
For fear of finding something worse.''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion (l. 53-54). . .
Oxford Book of Chi...
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''Don different from those regal Dons!
With hearts of gold and lungs of bronze,
Who shout and bang and roar and brawl
The Absolute across the hall,''
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Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), French-born British poet. Lines to a Don (l. 21-24). . .
Oxford Book of Satirical Verse, The. Geoffrey Grigson, comp. ...
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