 | Gilbert Keith Chesterton - English poetry - 1914 - 180 pages
...grasses stir, For he has said the name of God. THE DONKEY WHEN fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood...scourge, deride me : I am dumb, I keep my secret still. THE DONKEY Fools ! For I also had my hour ; One far fierce hour and sweet : There was a shout about... | |
 | James Hastings - Children's sermons - 1920 - 352 pages
...makes the donkey speak and recall the New Testament story. Here are two verses of the little poem. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked...scourge, deride me: I am dumb, I keep my secret still. Listen to this last verse — Fools 1 For I also had my hour ; One far fierce hour and sweet: There... | |
 | Thomas Caldwell - English poetry - 1922 - 432 pages
...I ride, Burning for ever in consuming fire. THE DONKEY When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood...ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody Of all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will; Starve, scourge,... | |
 | John Drinkwater - Literature - 1927 - 604 pages
...is all these in his beautiful little poem: THE DONKEY When fishes flew and forests walked, And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood,...scourge, deride me. I am dumb, I keep my secret still. Pkoln: L. Caswall Smith. HG WELLS Photo: C. Vandyk. Ltd. JOHN GALSWORTHY. The author of the great epic,... | |
 | Caroline Miles Hill - Religious poetry - 1923 - 890 pages
...CHESTERTON When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the morn was blood Then surely I was born : With monstrous...tattered outlaw of the earth Of ancient crooked will : Stone, scourge, deride me : I am dumb, I keep my secret still. Fools ! For I also had my hour ; One... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1925 - 872 pages
...saw in reading GK Chesterton's "The Donkey": THE DONKEY When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood...deride me: I am dumb, I keep my secret still. Fools 1 For I also had my hour, One far fierce hour and sweet; There was a shout about my ears, And palms... | |
 | University of Adelaide. Public Examinations Board - Examinations - 1928 - 1280 pages
...expression and imagery of the following poem : THE DONKEY. When fishes flew and forests walked And tigs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood...ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody Of all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will; Starve, scourge,... | |
 | Royston Oscar Jones - Spanish literature - 1973 - 404 pages
...ass that carried Christ into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday: When fishes flew and forests walked And fig grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood...will, Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb, I keep my secrets still. Fools! For I also had my hour; One far fierce hour and sweet; There was a shout about... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...weary, weary were the world, But here is all aright. (I. 1—4) BoTP; FaFP; OBCP; OHIP The Donkey 3 the herd And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne (1. 5-8) 4 Fools! For I also had my hour; One far fierce hour and sweet: There was a shout about my... | |
 | May Sarton - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 356 pages
...over my depression. So here is Chesterton's "The Donkey": When fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood,...ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody Of all four-footed things. The tattered outlaw of the earth, Of ancient crooked will; Starve, scourge,... | |
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WHEN fishes flew and forests walked And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood Then surely I was born ; With monstrous head and sickening cry And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody On all four-footed things. 
