1910s Poems - 1910 Poems, 1911 Poems, 1912 Poems, 1913 Poems, 1914 Poems, 1915 Poems, 1916 Poems, 1917 Poems, 1918 Poems, 1919 Poems (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 241. Not illustrated. Chapters: 1910 Poems, 1911 Poems, 1912 Poems, 1913 Poems, 1914 Poems, 1915 Poems, 1916 Poems, 1917 Poems, 1918 Poems, 1919 Poems, in Flanders Fields, the Ballad of the White Horse, 1919 in Poetry, 1915 in Poetry, 1913 in Poetry, the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, 1916 in Poetry, 1912 in Poetry, 1918 in Poetry, Zang Tumb Tumb, 1914 in Poetry, 1917 in Poetry, 1911 in Poetry, 1910 in Poetry, Baseball's Sad Lexicon, If, an Anna Blume, the Fighting Temeraire, Easter, 1916, the Road Not Taken, Bif zf+18, Flannan Isle, the Green Eye of the Yellow God, a Prayer for My Daughter, in a Station of the Metro, on Being Asked for a War Poem, the Motor Bus, Dulce et Decorum Est, Chicago, Al Que Quiere , Oread, Lunar Paraphrase, Anthem for Doomed Youth, My Boy Jack, the God Abandons Antony, Portrait of a Lady, the Rolling English Road, the Twelve, the Deserter, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, the Convergence of the Twain, Mending Wall, Leisure, Nimettomia Lauluja, Satires of Circumstance, Flori Sacre. Excerpt: The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem by G K Chesterton about the idealized exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911. Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered an epic poem. The poem narrates how Alfred was able to defeat the invading Danes at the Battle of Ethandun under the auspices of God working through the agency of the Virgin Mary. In addition to being a narration of Alfred's militaristic and political accomplishments, it is also considered a Catholic allegory. Chesterton incorporates a significant amount of philosophy into the basic structure of the story. The poem consists of 2,684 lines of English verse. They are divided into stanzas, typically consisting of 4 to 6 lines each. The poem is based on the ballad stanza form, although the poem o...