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Chapter 50: POEMS
By G. K. Chesterton
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A compiled listing of the author's writings that collects titles and table-of-contents entries across novels, short stories, essays, poems, and criticism. It organizes collections and series, enumerating individual chapter and story headings and grouping material by genre to aid discovery. The index serves as a navigational reference that outlines scope and structure rather than reproducing full texts.

EUGENICS AND OTHER EVILS

By G.K. Chesterton



CONTENTS


PART I
The False Theory
CHAPTER   PAGE
1. What is Eugenics? 3
2. The First Obstacles 12
3. The Anarchy from Above 22
4. The Lunatic and the Law 31
5. The Flying Authority 46
6. The Unanswered Challenge 61
7. The Established Church of Doubt 73
8. A Summary of a False Theory 82
PART II
The Real Aim
1. The Impotence of Impenitence 91
2. True History of a Tramp 101
3. True History of a Eugenist 114
4. The Vengeance of the Flesh 126
5. The Meanness of the Motive 136
6. The Eclipse of Liberty 148
7. The Transformation of Socialism 159
8. The End of the Household Gods 169
9. A Short Chapter 180
  Index 185





 

WHAT I SAW IN AMERICA

By G.K. Chesterton



CONTENTS





POEMS

By G.K. Chesterton

1916



CONTENTS

I

THREE DEDICATIONS

TO EDMUND CLERIHEW BENTLEY
TO HILAIRE BELLOC
TO M. E. W.

II

WAR POEMS

LEPANTO
THE MARCH OF THE BLACK MOUNTAIN 1913
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
THE WIFE OF FLANDERS
THE CRUSADER RETURNS FROM CAPTIVITY

III

LOVE POEMS

GLENCOE
LOVE'S TRAPPIST
CONFESSIONAL
MUSIC
THE DELUGE
THE STRANGE MUSIC
THE GREAT MINIMUM
THE MORTAL ANSWERS
A MARRIAGE SONG
BAY COMBE

IV

RELIGIOUS POEMS

THE WISE MEN
THE HOUSE OF CHRISTMAS
A SONG OF GIFTS TO GOD
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
A HYMN FOR THE CHURCH MILITANT
THE BEATIFIC VISION
THE TRUCE OF CHRISTMAS
A HYMN
A CHRISTMAS SONG FOR THREE GUILDS
THE NATIVITY
A CHILD OF THE SNOWS
A WORD

V

RHYMES FOR THE TIMES

ANTICHRIST, OR THE REUNION OF CHRISTENDOM: AN ODE
THE REVOLUTIONIST, OR LINES TO A STATESMAN
THE SHAKESPEARE MEMORIAL
THE HORRIBLE HISTORY OF JONES
THE NEW FREETHINKER
IN MEMORIAM P.D.
SONNET WITH THE COMPLIMENTS OF THE SEASON
A SONG OF SWORDS
A SONG OF DEFEAT
SONNET
AFRICA
THE DEAD HERO
AN ELECTION ECHO 1906
THE SONG OF THE WHEELS
THE SECRET PEOPLE

VI

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

LOST
BALLAD OF THE SUN
TRANSLATION FROM DU BELLAY
THE HIGHER UNITY
THE EARTH'S VIGIL
ON RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION
WHEN I CAME BACK TO FLEET STREET
A CIDER SONG
THE LAST HERO

VII

BALLADES

BALLADE D'UNE GRANDE DAME
A BALLADE OF AN ANTI-PURITAN
A BALLADE OF A BOOK-REVIEWER
A BALLADE OF SUICIDE
A BALLADE OF THE FIRST RAIN





THE BALLAD OF ST. BARBARA

AND OTHER VERSES

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

1922



CONTENTS

To F. C. In Memoriam Palestine, '19 vii
The Ballad of St. Barbara 1
Elegy in a Country Churchyard 13
The Sword of Surprise 14
A Wedding in War-time 15
The Mystery 18
"The Myth of Arthur" 19
The Old Song 20
The Trinkets 24
The Philanthropist 26
On the Downs 27
The Red Sea 30
For a War Memorial 32
Memory 33
The English Graves 35
Nightmare 37
A Second Childhood 40
"Mediævalism" 43
Poland 46
The Hunting of the Dragon 48
Sonnet 51
Fantasia 52
A Christmas Carol 54
To Captain Fryatt 56
For Four Guilds:
I. The Glass-Stainers 57
II. The Bridge-Builders 59
III. The Stone-Masons 62
IV. The Bell-Ringers 64
The Convert 67
Songs of Education:
I. History 71
II. Geography 74
III. For the Crêche 76
IV. Citizenship 78
V. The Higher Mathematics 80
VI. Hygiene 82





WINE, WATER, AND SONG

By G. K. Chesterton



CONTENTS

Page
The Englishman 9
Wine and Water 11
The Song against Grocers 15
The Rolling English Road 20
The Song of Quoodle 24
Pioneers, O Pioneers 27
The Logical Vegetarian 31
“The Saracen's Head” 34
The Good Rich Man 37
The Song against Songs 42
Me Heart 45
The Song of the Oak 49
The Road to Roundabout 53
The Song of the Strange Ascetic 57
The Song of Right and Wrong 60
Who Goes Home? 63





A CHESTERTON CALENDAR

Compiled from the Writings of
'G.K.C.' Both in Verse and in
Prose. With a section apart for
the Moveable Feasts.



CONTENTS

Prefatory Note
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
The Moveable Feasts





BIOGRAPHY FOR BEGINNERS

Being A Collection Of Miscellaneous Examples For The Use Of Upper Forms

Edited by E. Clerihew, B.A.
With 40 Diagrams By G. K. Chesterton



CONTENTS

Introductory Remarks
Sir Christopher Wren
Miguel de Cervantes
George Bernard Shaw
Sir Humphrey Davy
J. S. Mill
François Liszt
Lord Clive
King Edward the Confessor
The Rev. John Clifford, M.A., LL.B., D.D.
Messrs Chapman & Hall
Karl Marx
Otto the Great
Marconi
David Hume
Mr H. Belloc
Job
Pizarro
The Duke of Fife, K.T., P.C., G.C.V.O.
The Duke of Wellington
John Bunyan
George Hirst
Erasmus and the Humanists
Besant and Rice
Tiziano Vecelli
Professor James Dewar, F.R.S.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Jane Austen
Odo of Bayeux
David Ricardo
Sir Thomas à Mallory
Mr Alfred Beit
Cimabue
President Roosevelt
Robert Harley, Earl of Oxford
Sir Alexander Fuller Acland-Hood, M.P.
Mahomet
Edvard Grieg
Jan Van Eyck
Mr T. Werner Laurie
Index of Psychology