Arts & Sciences

Art Colours

by G. K. Chesterton 1874–1936

From The Wild Knight and Other Poems (1900)

Arts & Sciences

On must we go: we search dead leaves,
We chase the sunset's saddest flames,
The nameless hues that o'er and o'er
In lawless wedding lost their names.

God of the daybreak! Better be
Black savages; and grin to gird
Our limbs in gaudy rags of red,
The laughing-stock of brute and bird;

And feel again the fierce old feast,
Blue for seven heavens that had sufficed,
A gold like shining hoards, a red
Like roses from the blood of Christ.

MLA

Chesterton, G. K. “Art Colours.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/chesterton/97/.

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Chesterton, G. K. “Art Colours.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/chesterton/97/.

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