Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953)
British-French writer and historian

Poems by Hilaire Belloc

• A Bivouac
• A Trinity
• Algernon
• Ballade of Modest Confession
• Ballade to Our Lady of Czestochowa
• Because My Faltering Feet
• Charles Augustus Fortescue
• Courtesy
• Drinking Song, on the Excellence of Burgundy Wine
• Fatigue
• Franklin Hyde
• George
• Godolphin Horne
• Ha’nacker Mill
• Henry King
• Heretics All
• Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine
• Hildebrand
• In a Boat
• “Is there any reward?”
• Jim
• Juliet
• “Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties”
• Lines For A Christmas Card
• Lines to a Don
• Lord Finchley
• Lord Lundy
• Noël
• October
• On a General Election
• On His Books
• On the Gift of a Book to a Child
• On the Ladies of Pixton
• On the Little God
• On Torture: A Public Singer
• On Two Ministers of State
• On Vital Statistics
• Our Lord and Our Lady
• Rebecca
• Sarah Byng, Who Could Not Read and Was Tossed into a Thorny Hedge by a Bull
• September
• Song
• Stanzas Written on Battersea Bridge during a South-Westerly Gale
• Talking (and Singing) of the Nordic Man
• Tarantella
• The Big Baboon
• The Birds
• The Bison
• The Catholic Sun
• The Death and Last Confession of Wandering Peter
• The Dromedary
• The Early Morning
• The Elephant
• The Fanatic
• The Frog
• The Hippopotamus
• The Leader
• The Lion
• The Marmozet
• The Microbe
• The Night
• The Pacifist
• The Pelagian Drinking Song
• The Rebel
• The Scorpion
• The South Country
• The Statue
• The Telephone
• The Tiger
• The Vulture
• The Whale
• “The World Is Full of Double Beds”
• The Yak
• Time Cures All
• To Dives
• To the Balliol Men Still in Africa

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