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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Author: BELLOC, HILAIRE Matches Found: 151 Belloc, Hilaire Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene 151 poems available by this author AUVERGNAT Poem Text First Line: There was a man was half a clown Last Line: Hilaire belloc. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes BALLADE OF HELL AND OF MRS. ROEBECK First Line: I'm going out to dine at gray's Last Line: The dreadful guardians of the pit: %and mrs. Roebeck will be there BALLADE OF MODEST CONFESSION Poem Text First Line: My reading is extremely deep and wide Subject(s): Humor BALLADE OF THE HERESIARCHS First Line: John calvin whose peculiar fad Last Line: The wind has blown them all away BALLADE TO OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA Poem Text First Line: Lady and queen and mystery manifold Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary BALLADE TO OUR LADY OF CZESTOCHOWA First Line: Lady and queen and mystery manifold Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible BIG BABOON BIRDS First Line: When jesus christ was four years old BUT HOW MUCH MORE UNFORTUNATE ARE THOSE. Poem Text Subject(s): Wealth; Where Wealth Declines And Population Grows BUT HOW MUCH MORE UNFORTUNATE ARE THOSE. CHARLES AUGUSTUS FORTESCUE Poem Text First Line: The nicest child I ever knew Last Line: Simply doing right. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature COURTESY Poem Text First Line: Or courtesy, it is much less Last Line: My rhyme is written, my work is done. Subject(s): Courtesy; Christmas; Etiquette; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Manners; Courtesy COURTESY Poem Text First Line: Of courtesy, it is much less Last Line: My rhyme is written, my work is done. Subject(s): Christmas; Etiquette; Jesus Christ; Nativity, The; Manners; Courtesy CROCODILE First Line: Whatever our faults we can always engage CRUSADE Poem Text First Line: The kings come riding home from the crusade Last Line: And young lord raymond stormed jerusalem. CUCKOO! First Line: In woods so long time bare DAWN SHALL OVER LETHE BREAK First Line: Lady, when your lovely head DEATH AND LAST CONFESSION OF WANDERING PETER First Line: When peter wanderwide was young DEDICATORY ODE, SELS. DISCOVERY Poem Text First Line: Life is a long discovery, isn't it Last Line: That those who loved you best despised you most. Subject(s): Cynicism; Life DROMEDARY First Line: The dromedary is a cheerful bird DUNCTON HILL Poem Text First Line: He does not die that can bequeath Last Line: A boy that sings on duncton hill. Subject(s): Immortality ELM First Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled Last Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled Subject(s): Elm Trees; Environment; Trees FACE First Line: A face sir joshua might have painted! Yea Last Line: And after all you're painted every day FALSE HEART First Line: I said to heart, how goes it? Heart replied: Last Line: Right as a ribstone pippin! But it lied FATIGUE; EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: I'm tired of love: I'm still more tired of rhyme Last Line: But money gives me pleasure all the time. Subject(s): Money FRANKLIN HYDE, WHO CAROUSED IN THE DIRT AND WAS CORRECTED BY HIS UNCLE First Line: His uncle came on franklin hyde Last Line: May always play with sand GARDEN PARTY First Line: The rich arrived in pairs Last Line: And the flood destroyed them all GEORGE First Line: When george's grandmamma was told GNU First Line: G. Stands for gnu, whose weapons of defence Subject(s): Gnus GODOLPHIN HORNE Subject(s): Pride GODOLPHIN HORNE, WHO WAS CURSED WITH THE SIN OF PRIDE, AND BECAME A BOOT-BLACK Poem Text First Line: Godolphin horne was nobly born Last Line: Who blacks the boots at the savoy Subject(s): Pride; Coming Of Age; Satire; Social Commentary; Self-esteem; Self-respect HA'NACKER MILL First Line: Sally is gone that was so kindly Last Line: Never a ploughman. Never a one HENRY KING Poem Text First Line: The chief defect of henry king Variant Title(s): Henry King, Who Chewed Bits Of String ... Subject(s): King, Henry (1592-1669); Mnemonics HENRY KING First Line: The chief defect of henry king Last Line: With that, the wretched child expires Variant Title(s): Henry King, Who Chewed Bits Of String .. Subject(s): King, Henry (1592-1669); Mnemonics HER FAITH Poem Text First Line: Because my faltering feet may fail to dare Last Line: Say that's true now, and I'll believe it then. Subject(s): Faith; Belief; Creed HEY, NONNY NO! Last Line: When the winds blow and the seas flow? %hey, nonny no! HIPPOPOTAMUS First Line: I shoot the hippopotamus Subject(s): Animals; Hippopotamuses IMITATION First Line: Therefore do thou, stiff-set northumberland Last Line: Swift to your charges: nought was ever done %unless at some time it were first begun IN A BOAT Poem Text First Line: Lady! Lady! Last Line: A ship of pure gold Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary IN A BOAT First Line: Lady! Lady! Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible IS THERE ANY REWARD? Last Line: I'm beginning to doubt it JACK AND HIS PONY, TOM First Line: Jack had a little pony - tom Last Line: Attuned to their brutality JIM, WHO RAN AWAY FROM HIS NURSE, AND WAS EATEN BY A LION Poem Text First Line: There was a boy whose name was jim Last Line: For fear of finding something worse. Subject(s): Animals; Lions JULIET Poem Text First Line: How did the party go in portman square? Last Line: Juliet was next to me and I do not know. Subject(s): Love JUSTICE OF THE PEACE First Line: Distinquish carefully between these two Last Line: And mean to keep it. Do you understand? LEADER First Line: The sword fell down: I heard a knell LINES FOR A CHRISTMAS CARD Poem Text First Line: May all my enemies go to hell Last Line: May all my enemies go to hell! / noel! Noel! Subject(s): Hate; Christmas Cards LINES FOR A CHRISTMAS CARD First Line: May all my enemies go to hell Last Line: Noel, noel, noel, noel Subject(s): Hate LINES TO A DON Poem Text First Line: Remote and ineffectual don Last Line: That dared attack my chesterton Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Hate LINES TO A DON First Line: Remote and ineffectual don Last Line: To write some more about the don %that dared attack my chesterton Subject(s): Critics And Criticism; Hate LORD FINCHLEY Poem Text First Line: Lord finchley tried to mend the electric light Last Line: To give employment to the artisan. Subject(s): Wealth; Labor; Wit & Humor; Riches; Fortunes LORD HEYGATE Poem Text First Line: Lord heygate had a troubled face Last Line: About this unimportant peer Subject(s): Furnishings; Simplicity; Wit & Humor LORD HEYGATE HAD A TROUBLED FACE Last Line: I do not think you want to hear %about this unimportant peer LORD HIPPO Poem Text First Line: Lord hippo suffered fearful loss Last Line: To say that he backed the winner! Subject(s): Gambling; Horse Racing; Wagering; Betting LORD LUCKY First Line: Lord lucky, by a curious fluke LORD LUNDY Poem Text First Line: Lord lundy from his earliest years Last Line: How gracious! How lord lundy cried! Subject(s): Wit & Humor; Crying; Politics & Government LORD LUNDY FROM HIS EARLIEST YEARS MODERN TRAVELLER, SELS. First Line: And yet I really must complain MORAL First Line: From franklin hyde's adventure learn Subject(s): Mnemonics MORAL (1) First Line: Child, if you have a rummy kind of game MORAL (2) First Line: Don't ask questions MORAL ALPHABET, SELS. MORAL: FRANKLIN HYDE, WHO CAROUSED IN THE DIRT AND WAS CORRECTED BY HIS UNCLE Poem Text First Line: From franklin hyde's adventure learn Last Line: May always play with sand Subject(s): Children; Play; Uncles NOEL Poem Text First Line: On a winter's night long time ago Last Line: And the small child jesus smile on you. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Christmas; Santa Claus; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint OBITER DICTA First Line: Sir anthony habberton, justice and knight Last Line: I suggest - %(he is gagged, bound and dragged off to a dungeon) ON A DEAD HOSTESS; EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Of this bad world the loveliest and the best Last Line: Has smiled and said “good night,” and gone to rest Subject(s): Hospitality ON A DEAD HOSTESS; EPIGRAM First Line: Of this bad world the loveliest and the best Last Line: Has smiled and said 'good night,' and gone to rest Subject(s): Hospitality ON A GREAT ELECTION Poem Text First Line: The accursed power which stands on privilege Last Line: Which goes with bridge, and women and champagne Subject(s): Democracy; Wit & Humor ON A GREAT ELECTION; EPIGRAM First Line: The accursed power which stands on privilege Variant Title(s): On A General Election Subject(s): Elections; Politics & Government; Voting; Voters; Suffrage ON A GREAT ELECTION; EPIGRAM First Line: The accursed power which stands on privilege Last Line: Which goes with bridge, and women and champagne Variant Title(s): On A General Electio Subject(s): Elections; Politics ON A HAND First Line: Her hand which touched my hand she moved away ON A POLITICIAN Poem Text First Line: Here, richly, with ridiculous display Last Line: I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged Variant Title(s): Epitaph On The Poilitician Subject(s): Hate; Politics & Government ON A POLITICIAN First Line: Here, richly, with ridiculous display Last Line: I wept: for I had longed to see him hanged Variant Title(s): Epitaph On The Poiliticia Subject(s): Hate; Politics ON A SUNDIAL; EPIGRAM First Line: Stealthy the silent hours advance, and still; Last Line: And each may wound you, and the last shall kill ON HIS BOOKS Poem Text First Line: When I am dead, I hope it may be said Last Line: His sins were scarlet, but his books were red Variant Title(s): Epigram Subject(s): Books & Reading ON HIS BOOKS First Line: When I am dead, I hope it may be said Variant Title(s): Epigra ON HYGIENE Poem Text First Line: Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried Last Line: Both how to make men sick and keep them so Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription ON HYGIENE First Line: Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried Last Line: Both how to make men sick and keep them so Subject(s): Medicine ON JAM First Line: I write of jam, a subject stiff ON LADY POLTAGRUE: A PUBLIC PERIL Poem Text First Line: The devil, having nothing else to do Last Line: To his extreme annoyance, tempted him. Subject(s): Evil; Villains In Literature ON MUNDANE ACQUAINTANCES; EPIGRAM First Line: Good morning, algernon: good morning, percy Subject(s): Friendship ON MUNDANE ACQUAINTANCES; EPIGRAM First Line: Good morning, algernon: good morning, percy Last Line: Good morning, mrs. Roebeck. Christ have mercy! Subject(s): Friendship ON THE GIFT OF A BOOK TO A CHILD Poem Text First Line: Child! Do not throw this book about Subject(s): Books; Reading ON THE GIFT OF A BOOK TO A CHILD First Line: Child! Do not throw this book about Last Line: For men that lose their fairylands Subject(s): Books OUR LORD AND OUR LADY Poem Text First Line: They warned our lady for the child Last Line: With the white moon at her feet. Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary PACIFIST; EPIGRAM First Line: Pale ebenezer thought it wrong to fight Last Line: But roaring bill (who killed him) thought it right Subject(s): Pacifism; Soldiers POLITICIAN OF THE IRISH EARLDOM First Line: A strong and striking personality Subject(s): Science PROPHET LOST IN THE HILLS AT EVENING First Line: Strong god which made the topmost stars PYTHON First Line: A python I should not advise Subject(s): Pythons QUARNERO Poem Text First Line: Oh! My companion, oh! My sister sleep! Last Line: Oh! My companion, oh! My sister sleep! REBECCA; WHO SLAMMED DOORS FOR FUN AND PERISHED MISERABLY Poem Text First Line: A trick that everyone abhors Last Line: -- as often they had done before. Variant Title(s): Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably Subject(s): Children; Doors; Wit & Humor; Childhood REBEL First Line: There is a wall of which the stones Last Line: For fear perhaps my little son %should break his hands, as I have done Subject(s): Freedom SARAH BYNG Poem Text First Line: Some years ago you heard me sing Last Line: That literature breeds distress. Subject(s): Literature SCORPION First Line: The scorpion is as black as soot Last Line: To find in bed at night SEDAN Poem Text First Line: I, from a window where the meuse is wide Last Line: And round her terrible head the morning stars. Subject(s): World War I - France SONG CALLED HIS HIDE IS COVERED WITH HAIR First Line: The dog is a faithful, intelligent friend Variant Title(s): East And Wes Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hair SONG OF THE PELAGIAN HERESY First Line: Pelagiun lived in kardanoel SONG: INVITING THE INFLUENCE OF A YOUNG LADY...OPENING YEAR First Line: You wear the morning like your dress SONNET: 18 Poem Text First Line: When you to acheron's ugly water came Last Line: Good land to leave: and young love satisfied. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET: 21. THE POOR OF LONDON Poem Text First Line: Almighty god, whose justice like a sun Last Line: Ring down the abyss of twice ten thousand years Subject(s): Religion; Theology SONNET: 21. THE POOR OF LONDON First Line: Almighty god, whose justice like a sun Last Line: Ring down the abyss of twice ten thousand years Subject(s): Religion STANZAS WRITTEN ON BATTERSEA BRIDGE DURING A SOUTHWESTERLY GALE Poem Text First Line: The woods and downs have caught the mid-december Subject(s): Sea; Wind; England; Patriotism; Ocean; English STATESMAN First Line: I knew a man who used to say Last Line: A week, a month, or even more STATUE; EPIGRAM First Line: When we are dead, some hunting-boy will pass Last Line: Amd grey with age: but having seen that stone %(which was your image), ride more slowly on SUSSEX DRINKING SONG Poem Text First Line: They sell good beer at haslemere Last Line: For a bellyful of good ale. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Wine TARANTELLA Poem Text First Line: Do you remember an inn, / miranda? Last Line: Of the far waterfall like doom. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Hotels; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses TELEPHONE; EPIGRAM First Line: Tonight in million-voiced london I Last Line: Peoples all heaven, although be but one Subject(s): Science THE BAD CHILD'S BOOK OF BEASTS: INTRODUCTION Poem Text First Line: I call you bad, my little child Last Line: "and as the owl discreet." Subject(s): Animals; Cats THE BIG BABOON Poem Text First Line: The big baboon is found upon Subject(s): Baboons THE BIRDS Poem Text First Line: When jesus christ was four years old Subject(s): Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth THE BISON Poem Text First Line: The bison is vain, and (I write it with pain) Last Line: But is sewn on with needle and thread. Subject(s): Bison THE CAMEL Poem Text First Line: The ship of the desert Subject(s): Camels THE CAMELOPARD Poem Text First Line: The camelopard, it is said Last Line: With stones and sticks and guns and slings. Subject(s): Giraffes THE DODO Poem Text First Line: The dodo used to walk around Last Line: All in the mu-se-um. Subject(s): Extinct Animals THE DROMEDARY Poem Text First Line: The dromedary is a cheerful bird: Subject(s): Camels THE EARLY MORNING Poem Text First Line: The moon on the one hand, the dawn on the other Last Line: My brother, good-morning; my sister, good-night. Variant Title(s): Early Dawn Subject(s): Morning THE ELEPHANT Poem Text First Line: When people call this beast to mind Last Line: So large a trunk before Subject(s): Elephants THE ELM Poem Text First Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled Last Line: This is the place where dorothea smiled Subject(s): Elm Trees; Environment; Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation THE FROG Poem Text First Line: Be kind and tender to the frog Last Line: They are extremely rare). Subject(s): Animals; Frogs THE GNU Poem Text First Line: G. Stands for gnu, whose weapons of defence Last Line: That even haydy boers pronounce it wrong Subject(s): Gnus THE HIPPOPOTAMUS Poem Text First Line: I shoot the hippopotamus Last Line: His hide is sure to flatten 'em Subject(s): Animals; Hippopotamuses THE LEARNED FISH Poem Text First Line: This learned fish has not sufficient brains Subject(s): Fish THE LION Poem Text First Line: The lion, the lion, he dwells in waste Last Line: And a good little child will not play with him. Subject(s): Animals; Lions THE LLAMA Poem Text First Line: The llama is a woolly sort of fleecy, hairy goat Last Line: The mongol of the monastery of shan. Subject(s): Llamas THE MARMOZET Poem Text First Line: The species man and marmozet Last Line: But men are all extinct. Subject(s): Mankind; Monkeys; Human Race THE MICROBE Poem Text First Line: The microbe is so very small Last Line: What nobody is sure about! Subject(s): Germs; Microscopes THE NIGHT Poem Text First Line: Most holy night, that still dost keep Last Line: Most holy night. Subject(s): Sleep THE PACIFIST; EPIGRAM First Line: Pale ebenezer thought it wrong to fight Last Line: But roaring bill (who killed him) thought it right Subject(s): Pacifism; Soldiers; Peace Movements THE POLAR BEAR Poem Text First Line: The polar bear is unaware Subject(s): Bears THE POLITICIAN OF THE IRISH EARLDOM First Line: A strong and striking personality Last Line: To know each other's value more Subject(s): Science; Scientists THE PYTHON First Line: A python I should not advise Last Line: The snake is living yet Subject(s): Pythons THE REBEL Poem Text First Line: There is a wall of which the stones Last Line: Should break his hands, as I have done Subject(s): Freedom; Liberty THE RHINOCEROS Poem Text First Line: Rhinoceros, your hide looks all undone Last Line: Rhinoceros, you are an ugly beast. Variant Title(s): Ode To A Rhinoceros Subject(s): Rhinoceroses THE SONG CALLED HIS HIDE IS COVERED WITH HAIR Poem Text First Line: The dog is a faithful, intelligent friend Last Line: Whose hide is covered with hair Variant Title(s): East And West Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Hair THE SOUTH COUNTRY Poem Text First Line: When I am living in the midlands Last Line: Shall sit and drink with me. Variant Title(s): The Hills Of The South Country Subject(s): England; English THE TELEPHONE; EPIGRAM Poem Text First Line: Tonight in million-voiced london I Last Line: People of all heaven, although he be but one Subject(s): Telephones THE TIGER Poem Text First Line: The tiger, on the other hand, is kittenish and mild Last Line: Will find a tiger will repay the trouble and expense. Subject(s): Animals; Tigers THE VIPER Poem Text First Line: Yet another great truth I record in my verse Last Line: But after the second you die. Subject(s): Snakes; Serpents; Vipers THE VULTURE Poem Text First Line: The vulture eats between his meals Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dinners & Dining; Food & Eating; Gluttony; Vultures THE WHALE Poem Text First Line: The whale that wanders round the pole Subject(s): Whales THE WORLD'S A STAGE Poem Text First Line: The world's a stage. The trifling entrance fee Last Line: The very worst of modernistic rot Subject(s): Life Change Events THE YAK Poem Text First Line: As a friend to the children commend me the yak Last Line: (I cannot be positive which.) Subject(s): Animals; Yaks THEY SAY, AND I AM GLAD THEY SAY TO DIVES Poem Text First Line: Dives, when you and I go down to hell Last Line: They order things so damnably in hell Subject(s): Bible; Charon; Religion; Styx (river); Theology TO DIVES First Line: Dives, when you and I go down to hell Last Line: They order things so damnably in hell Subject(s): Bible; Charon; Religion TO THE BALLIOL MEN STILL IN AFRICA Poem Text First Line: Years ago when I was at balliol Last Line: God be with you, balliiol men Subject(s): Balliol College, Oxford TO THE BALLIOL MEN STILL IN AFRICA First Line: Years ago when I was at balliol Subject(s): Balliol College, Oxford VULTURE First Line: The vulture eats between his meals Last Line: Oh! What a lesson for us all %to only eat at dinner! Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Dinners And Dining; Food And Eating; Gluttony; Vultures W First Line: My little victim, let me trouble you WORLD'S A STAGE First Line: The world's a stage. The trifling entrance fee Last Line: On with my coat and out into the night Subject(s): Life Change Events |
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