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A collection of poetry by Hilaire Belloc ranging from religious verses to drinking songs. - Summary by Larry Wilson (1 hr 47 min)

Chapters

Dedication and Introduction

21:46

Read by Larry Wilson

To Dives

3:44

Read by Matthew D. Robinson

Stanzas Written on Battersea Bridge During a South-Westerly Gale

2:34

Read by Erin Stone

The South Country

2:44

Read by Sarah Brown

The Fanatic

3:03

Read by Erin Stone

Noel

1:43

Read by Larry Wilson

The Early Morning

0:32

Read by Larry Wilson

The Birds

0:43

Read by Larry Wilson

Our Lord and Our Lady

1:14

Read by Larry Wilson

In a Boat

1:09

Read by Marcia Eppich-Harris

Courtesy

1:24

Read by Erin Stone

The Night

0:56

Read by Larry Wilson

The Leader

2:04

Read by Marcia Eppich-Harris

A Bivouac

1:29

Read by Stefan Von Blon

To the Balliol Men Still in Africa

2:27

Read by Algy Pug

Verses to a Lord

1:38

Read by Algy Pug

The Rebel

1:42

Read by Erin Stone

The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening

1:36

Read by Larry Wilson

Song

0:58

Read by Rachel Marie

The Ring

1:07

Read by Rachel Marie

Cuckoo

1:14

Read by Stefan Von Blon

The Mirror

0:54

Read by Stefan Von Blon

The Little Serving Maid

1:46

Read by Rachel Marie

The End of the Road

3:00

Read by Stefan Von Blon

Auvergnat

0:57

Read by Erin Grassie

Drinking Song

1:18

Read by Sarah Brown

Drinking Dirge

1:56

Read by Algy Pug

West Sussex Drinking Song

1:35

Read by Erin Grassie

A Ballad on Sociological Economics

0:38

Read by Erin Stone

An Oracle That Warned the Writer When on Pilgrimage

1:18

Read by Larry Wilson

Heretics All

1:29

Read by Stefan Von Blon

The Death and Last Confession of Wandering

2:12

Read by Algy Pug

Dedicatory Ode [read footnotes]

8:17

Read by Algy Pug

Dedication on the Gift of a Book to a Child

1:03

Read by April6090

Dedication of a Child’s Book of Imaginary

0:40

Read by April6090

Homage

0:52

Read by Slyma12

Fille-la-Haine

1:10

Read by Slyma12

The Moon’s Funeral

1:29

Read by Larry Wilson

The Happy Journalist

1:23

Read by April6090

Lines to a Don

3:09

Read by Larry Wilson

Newdigate Poem

7:55

Read by Lucretia B.

The Yellow Mustard

1:12

Read by Slyma12

On Hygiene

0:34

Read by Algy Pug

The False Heart

0:43

Read by Algy Pug

Sonnet upon God the Wine-Giver

1:18

Read by Algy Pug

The Politician or the Irish Earldom

2:14

Read by Algy Pug

Short Ballad and Postscript on Consols

2:36

Read by Algy Pug