- Verses
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A collection of poetry by Hilaire Belloc ranging from religious verses to drinking songs.
- Chapters
- Dedication and Introduction
- To Dives
- Stanzas Written on Battersea Bridge During a South-Westerly Gale
- The South Country
- The Fanatic
- Noel
- The Early Morning
- The Birds
- Our Lord and Our Lady
- In a Boat
- Courtesy
- The Night
- The Leader
- A Bivouac
- To the Balliol Men Still in Africa
- Verses to a Lord
- The Rebel
- The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening
- Song
- The Ring
- Cuckoo
- The Mirror
- The Little Serving Maid
- The End of the Road
- Auvergnat
- Drinking Song
- Drinking Dirge
- West Sussex Drinking Song
- A Ballad on Sociological Economics
- An Oracle That Warned the Writer When on Pilgrimage
- Heretics All
- The Death and Last Confession of Wandering
- Dedicatory Ode [read footnotes]
- Dedication on the Gift of a Book to a Child
- Dedication of a Child’s Book of Imaginary
- Homage
- Fille-la-Haine
- The Moon’s Funeral
- The Happy Journalist
- Lines to a Don
- Newdigate Poem
- The Yellow Mustard
- On Hygiene
- The False Heart
- Sonnet upon God the Wine-Giver
- The Politician or the Irish Earldom
- Short Ballad and Postscript on Consols