A Girls’s Sin – In Her Eyes (Francis Thompson Poems)
Cross child! red, and frowning so?'I, the day just over,Gave a lock of hair to--no!How DARE you say, my lover?'He ...
Francis Thompson Poems on Kiss (18 Poems)
Sister Songs-An Offering To Two Sisters – Part The First (Francis Thompson Poems)
The leaves dance, the leaves sing,The leaves dance in the breath of the Spring.I bid them dance,I bid them sing,For ...
Orient Ode (Francis Thompson Poems)
Lo, in the sanctuaried East,Day, a dedicated priestIn all his robes pontifical exprest,Lifteth slowly, lifteth sweetly,From out its Orient tabernacle ...
A Girl’s Sin – In Her Eyes (Francis Thompson Poems)
Cross child! red, and frowning so? 'I, the day just over,Gave a lock of hair to--no! How DARE you say, ...
The Poppy (Francis Thompson Poems)
'To Monica'Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,And left the flushed print in a poppy there:Like a yawn of fire ...
Inscription (Francis Thompson Poems)
When the last stir of bubbling melodiesBroke as my chants sank underneath the waveOf dulcitude, but sank again to riseWhere ...
‘Ex Ore Infantium’ (Francis Thompson Poems)
Little Jesus, wast Thou shyOnce, and just so small as I?And what did it feel like to beOut of Heaven, ...
Against Urania (Francis Thompson Poems)
Lo I, Song's most true lover, plain me soreThat worse than other women she can deceive,For she being goddess, I ...
Love’s Almsman Plaineth His Fare (Francis Thompson Poems)
O you, love's mendicancy who never tried, How little of your almsman me you know!Your little languid hand in mine ...
A Girl’s Sin – In His Eyes (Francis Thompson Poems)
Can I forget her crueltyWho, brown miracle, gave you me?Or with unmoisted eyes think onThe proud surrender overgone,(Lowlihead in haughty ...
House Of Bondage (Francis Thompson Poems)
IWhen I perceive Love's heavenly reaping stillRegard perforce the clouds' vicissitude,That the fixed spirit loves not when it will,But craves ...
After Her Going (Francis Thompson Poems)
The after-even! Ah, did I walk, Indeed, in her or even?For nothing of me or around But absent She did ...
A May Burden (Francis Thompson Poems)
Though meadow-ways as I did tread,The corn grew in great lustihead,And hey! the beeches burgeoned.By Goddes fay, by Goddes fay!It ...
Dream tryst (Francis Thompson Poems)
The breaths of kissing night and day Were mingled in the eastern Heaven, Throbbing with unheard melody, Shook Lyra all ...
Nocturn (Francis Thompson Poems)
I walk, I only,Not I only wake;Nothing is, this sweet night,But doth couch and wakeFor its love's sake;Everything, this sweet ...
‘Where Art Thou Come?’ (Francis Thompson Poems)
'Friend, whereto art thou come?' Thus Verity;Of each that to the world's sad OlivetComes with no multitude, but alone by ...
Dream tryst (Francis Thompson Poems)
The breaths of kissing night and day Were mingled in the eastern Heaven, Throbbing with unheard melody, Shook Lyra all ...
The Poppy (Francis Thompson Poems)
To Monica Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, And left the flushed print in a poppy there: Like a ...