An Anthem Of Earth (Francis Thompson Poems)
Proemion.Immeasurable Earth!Through the loud vast and populacy of Heaven,Tempested with gold schools of ponderous orbs,That cleav'st with deep-revolting harmoniesPassage perpetual, ...
Francis Thompson Poems on Woman (13 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 ...
From The Night Of Forebeing (Francis Thompson Poems)
An ode after Easter.Cast wide the folding doorways of the East,For now is light increased!And the wind-besomed chambers of the ...
Her Portrait (Francis Thompson Poems)
Oh, but the heavenly grammar did I holdOf that high speech which angels' tongues turn gold!So should her deathless beauty ...
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 ...
The Mistress Of Vision (Francis Thompson Poems)
I Secret was the garden; Set i' the pathless awe Where no star its breath can draw. ...
Assumpta Maria (Francis Thompson Poems)
Mortals, that behold a Woman, Rising 'twixt the Moon and Sun;Who am I the heavens assume? an All am I, ...
My Lady The Tyranness (Francis Thompson Poems)
Me since your fair ambition bowsFeodary to those gracious brows,Is nothing mine will not confessYour sovran sweet rapaciousness?Though use to ...
A Carrier Song (Francis Thompson Poems)
I.Since you have waned from us,Fairest of women!I am a darkened cageSong cannot hymn in.My songs have followed you,Like birds ...
Grace Of The Way (Francis Thompson Poems)
'My brother!' spake she to the sun; The kindred kisses of the starsWere hers; her feet were set upon The ...
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 ...
Penelope (Francis Thompson Poems)
Love, like a wind, shook wide your blosmy eyes,You trembled, and your breath came sobbing-wise For that you loved me.You ...
Hermes (Francis Thompson Poems)
Soothsay. Behold, with rod twy-serpented,Hermes the prophet, twining in one powerThe woman with the man. Upon his headThe cloudy cap, ...