Who is Hilaire Belloc

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (, French: [ilɛːʁ bɛlɔk]; 27 July 1870 – 16 July 1953) was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early twentieth century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong effect on his works.Belloc became a naturalised British subject in 1902 while retaining his French citizenship. He served as President of the Oxford Union and later MP for Salford South from 1906 to 1910. Belloc was a noted disputant, with a number of long-running feuds.Belloc's writings encompassed religious poetry and comic verse for children. His widely sold Cautionary Tales for Children included "Jim, who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion" and "Matilda, who told lies and...
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Hilaire Belloc Poems

• He Scorpion
  The Scorpion is as black as soot,
  He dearly loves to bite;
  He is a most unpleasant brute
  To find in bed at night....
• September
  I, from a window where the Meuse is wide,
  Looked eastward out to the September night;
  The men that in the hopeless battle died
  Rose, and deployed, and stationed for the fight; ...
• October
  Look, how those steep woods on the mountain's face
  Burn, burn against the sunset; now the cold
  Invades our very noon: the year's grown old,
  Mornings are dark, and evenings come apace. ...
• The Diamond
  This diamond, Juliet, will adorn
  Ephemeral beauties yet unborn.
  While my strong verse, for ever new,
  Shall still adorn immortal you....
• The Birds
  When Jesus Christ was four years old
  The angels brought Him toys of gold,
  Which no man ever had bought or sold.
  ...

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Hilaire Belloc Quotes

• The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.
• All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men.

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