AND OTHER POEMS

BY

GILBERT CHESTERTON

1900

NOTE

My thanks are due to the Editors of the Outlook and the Speaker for the kind permission they have given me to reprint a considerable number of the following poems. They have been selected and arranged rather with a view to unity of spirit than to unity of time or value; many of them being juvenile.

CONTENTS

BY THE BABE UNBORN

THE WORLD'S LOVER

THE SKELETON

A CHORD OF COLOUR

THE HAPPY MAN

THE UNPARDONABLE SIN

A NOVELTY

ULTIMATE

THE DONKEY

THE BEATIFIC VISION

THE HOPE OF THE STREETS

ECCLESIASTES

SONG OF THE CHILDREN

THE FISH

GOLD LEAVES

THOU SHALT NOT KILL A CERTAIN EVENING

A MAN AND HIS IMAGE

THE MARINER

THE TRIUMPH OF MAN

CYCLOPEAN

JOSEPH

MODERN ELFLAND

ETERNITIES

A CHRISTMAS CAROL

ALONE

KING'S CROSS STATION

THE HUMAN TREE

TO THEM THAT MOURN

THE OUTLAW

BEHIND

THE END OF FEAR

THE HOLY OF HOLIES

THE MIRROR OF MADMEN

E. C. B.

THE DESECRATERS