The Hound of Heaven (Francis Thompson Poems)
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I ...
I fled Him, down the nights and down the days; I fled Him, down the arches of the years; I ...
WHEN I went into my room, at mid-morning,Say ten o'clock . . .My room, a crash-box over that great stone ...
WHEN did you start your tricksMonsieur?What do you stand on such high legs for?Why this length of shredded shankYou exaltation?Is ...
For months my hand was sealed off in a tin box. Nothing was there but the subway railings. Perhaps it ...
The place, my lord, is much like Gideon's fleeceThe second time he laid it on the ground;For by the will ...
Yielding clod lulls iron off to sleepbloods clot the patches where they oozed rusts crumblefleshes slime sucking lusts around decay. ...
Read here: This is the story of Evarra -- man -- Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea. Because ...
'Twas in the prime of summer-time An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school: ...
Out of the poisonous East, Over a continent of blight, Like a maleficent Influence released From the most squalid cellerage ...
Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a ...
I He bends his travel-tarnished feet To where she wastes in clay: From day-dawn until eve he fares Along the ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
I Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. ...
One in thy thousand statues we salute thee On all thy thousand thrones acclaim and claim Who walk in forest ...
In a motion of night they massed nearer my post. I hummed a short blues. When the stars went out ...
I fled Him down the nights and down the days I fled Him down the arches of the years I ...
Maybe it's Emphysema, a shiny black jewel of phlegm humming like a clump of bees in my chest. Perhaps a ...
You said the anger would come back just as the love did. I have a black look I do not ...
For months my hand was sealed off in a tin box. Nothing was there but the subway railings. Perhaps it ...
When I am dead I will not care How future generations fare, For I will be so unaware. Though fields ...
Rain filled the streets once a year, rising almost to door and window sills, battering walls and roofs until it ...
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