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Poem by Hilaire Belloc


The Statue


When we are dead, some Hunting-boy will pass
And find a stone half-hidden in tall grass
And grey with age: but having seen that stone
(Which was your image), ride more slowly on.



Hilaire Belloc


Hilaire Belloc's other poems:
  1. Noël
  2. To Dives
  3. Stanzas Written on Battersea Bridge during a South-Westerly Gale
  4. Courtesy
  5. Ballade of Modest Confession


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Clinton Scollard The Statue ("As perfect in their symmetry as thine")
  • Ella Wilcox The Statue ("A granite rock in the mountain side")

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