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"We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment."
-- Hilaire Belloc

#HilaireBelloc #distraction #travel #fulfillment #literature #wandering #Belloc #love #life #books #poems #poetry #art #poem #novels #death
April 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
edieg14.bsky.social
April book challenge. Post a favorite quote each day for a month. It has to be from a book or book related.
#books #quotes #booksky
26/30: Hilaire Belloc, photo by me.
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April 26, 2025 at 6:13 AM
catsbearsandme.bsky.social
#Poetry
#BlueskyPoetry
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#CautionaryTales

Matilda by Hilaire Belloc
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Matilda told such Dreadful Lies, It made one Gasp and Stretch one's Eyes; Her Aunt, who, from her Earliest Youth, Had kept a Strict Regard for Truth, Attempted to Believe Matilda: The effort very nearly killed her, And would have done so, had not She Discovered this Infirmity. For once, towards the Close of Day, Matilda, growing tired of play, And finding she was left alone, Went tiptoe to the Telephone And summoned the Immediate Aid Of London's Noble Fire-Brigade. Within an hour the Gallant Band Were pouring in on every hand, From Putney, Hackney Downs, and Bow With Courage high and Hearts a-glow They galloped, roaring through the Town 'Matilda's House is Burning Down!' Inspired by British Cheers and Loud Proceeding from the Frenzied Crowd, They ran their ladders through a score Of windows on the Ball Room Floor; And took Peculiar Pains to Souse The Pictures up and down the House, Until Matilda's Aunt succeeded In showing them they were not needed; And even then she had to pay To get the Men to go away!
April 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
pjbraley.bsky.social
Today I am celebrating the birthday of #HilaireBelloc - regardless of the color of his sins - by #reading #poetry 📚💙

More; Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc, Anglo-French #writer and #historian -
www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/hilair...

#poet #quotes
July 28, 2025 at 1:52 AM
lenamaomi.shy.cat
"Perda e posse. Morte e vida são um.
Não já nenhuma sombra onde o Sol não brilha."
#HilaireBelloc
October 7, 2024 at 1:47 AM
nathanfrancis79.bsky.social
“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.”

✒️ #HilaireBelloc, Anglo-French author, was #BOTD 27 July 1870. #Literature
July 27, 2025 at 2:14 AM
catsbearsandme.bsky.social
#Poetry
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Charles Augustus Fortescue by Hilaire Belloc
The nicest child I ever knew Was Charles Augustus Fortescue. He never lost his cap, or tore His stockings or his pinafore: In eating Bread he made no Crumbs, He was extremely fond of sums, To which, however, he preferred The Parsing of a Latin Word— He sought, when it was within his power, For information twice an hour, And as for finding Mutton-Fat Unappatising, far from that! He often, at his Father’s Board, Would beg them, of his own accord, To give him, if they did not mind, The Greasiest Morsels they could find— His Later Years did not belie The Promise of his Infancy. In Public Life he always tried To take a judgement Broad and Wide; In Private, none was more than he Renowned for quiet courtesy. He rose at once in his Career, And long before his Fortieth Year Had wedded Fifi, Only Child Of Bunyan, First Lord Aberfylde. He thus became immensely Rich, And built the Splendid Mansion which Is called The Cedars, Muswell Hill, Where he resides in affluence still, To show what everybody might Become by SIMPLY DOING RIGHT.
May 26, 2026 at 4:58 PM
keithpettit.bsky.social
Now here's a lovely thing to brighten a woeful day. Miles Wigfield 'Reading Room Press' publication of the #HilaireBelloc 's poem Ha'nacker Mill illustrated with a little #woodengraving I did.
Grab youself one of a very limited edition:
thereadingroompress.com
February 22, 2024 at 11:27 AM
randyjay.bsky.social
Books shipping to new homes this morning.
#Arms&Armor #weapons #17thCentury #poetry #humor #HilaireBelloc #Ulay #ConceptualArt #GrantWood #AmericanArt #painters #regionalism
A 20th century facsimile edition of a 17th Century work entitled "The Exercise of Armes" by Jacob De Gheyn. The dust jacket shows a circa 1607 etching of three well-dressed, bearded men in wide-brimmed, feathered hats. All are carrying very large blunderbuss-style guns. The background for the artwork is printed in solid red. Above the illustration a black panel shows the title and author's name in white letters. A book entitled "Selected Cautionary Verses", by Hilaire Belloc. On a yellow background a black & white line drawing shows an elderly man speaking to a young boy. His hand is on the boy's shoulder. A square black art book with white letters spelling out the title in capitalized, sans-serif letters: Whispers: "Ulay on Ulay". The author's names are not shown. A square format book entitled "Grant Wood: The Regionalist Vision", by Wanda M. Corn. A painting by the artist shows a birds-eye view looking down on rolling green hills, with a tiny farmer and his horse tilling a field in the foreground. A farm house can be seen in the distance on the left. Titles of the book are overlaid in white letters.
January 2, 2026 at 3:31 PM
kathrynmccary.bsky.social
#HilaireBelloc #TheFrog #Poetry
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
jzikah.bsky.social
You made me look him up!
So joyous.
#HilaireBelloc

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Hilaire Belloc - Singing His Own Poems - 78 rpm - Rare
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July 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
claire46.bsky.social
#MalcolmGuite #HilaireBelloc

Of Courtesy, it is much less
Than Courage of Heart or Holiness,
Yet in my Walks it seems to me
That the Grace of God is in Courtesy.
Courtesy by Hilaire Belloc
image by Linda RichardsonFor January 3rd in my  Anthology from Canterbury Press, Waiting on the Word, I have chosen to read Courtesy by Hilaire Belloc. I have chosen it for this…
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January 3, 2026 at 4:37 PM
outlived.org
Died #otd Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953), British-French writer and historian, 72 years ago today #HilaireBelloclife story...
July 16, 2025 at 7:45 AM