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 (105 Poems)
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, ...
Ode To The Setting Sun (Francis Thompson Poems)
Alpha and Omega, sadness and mirth, The springing music, and its wasting breath--The fairest things in life are Death and ...
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 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 ...
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, ...
Heard On The Mountain (Francis Thompson Poems)
From Hugo's 'Feuilles d'Automne'.Have you sometimes, calm, silent, let your tread aspirant riseUp to the mountain's summit, in the presence ...
The Cloud’s Swan-Song (Francis Thompson Poems)
There is a parable in the pathless cloud,There's prophecy in heaven,--they did not lie,The Chaldee shepherds; seal-ed from the proud,To ...
A Judgment In Heaven (Francis Thompson Poems)
Athwart the sod which is treading for God * the poet paced with hissplendid eyes;Paradise-verdure he stately passes * to ...
Any Saint (Francis Thompson Poems)
His shoulder did I holdToo high that I, o'erbold Weak one, Should lean thereon.But He a little hathDeclined ...
A Corymbus For Autumn (Francis Thompson Poems)
Hearken my chant, 'tisAs a Bacchante's,A grape-spurt, a vine-splash, a tossed tress, flown vaunt 'tis!Suffer my singing,Gipsy of Seasons, ere ...
To The Dead Cardinal Of Westminster (Francis Thompson Poems)
I will not perturbateThy Paradisal stateWith praiseOf thy dead days;To the new-heavened say, -"Spirit, thou wert fine clay:"This do,Thy praise ...
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 ...
The Dread Of Height (Francis Thompson Poems)
Not the Circean wineMost perilous is for pain:Grapes of the heavens' star-loaden vine,Whereto the lofty-placedThoughts of fair souls attain,Tempt with ...
A Sunset (Francis Thompson Poems)
From Hugo's 'Feuilles d'Automne'.I love the evenings, passionless and fair, I love the evens,Whether old manor-fronts their ray with golden ...
Contemplation (Francis Thompson Poems)
This morning saw I, fled the shower,The earth reclining in a lull of power:The heavens, pursuing not their path,Lay stretched ...
A Fallen Yew (Francis Thompson Poems)
It seemed corrival of the world's great prime,Made to un-edge the scythe of Time,And last with stateliest rhyme.No tender Dryad ...
Manus Animam Pinxit (Francis Thompson Poems)
Lady who hold'st on me dominion!Within your spirit's arms I stay me fastAgainst the fellImmitigate ravening of the gates of ...
To My Godchild-Francis M. W. M. (Francis Thompson Poems)
This labouring, vast, Tellurian galleon,Riding at anchor off the orient sun,Had broken its cable, and stood out to spaceDown some ...
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 ...
To Monica Thought Dying (Francis Thompson Poems)
You, O the piteous you!Who all the long night throughAnticipatedlyDisclose yourself to meAlready in the waysBeyond our human comfortable days;How ...
July Fugitive (Francis Thompson Poems)
Can you tell me where has hid her Pretty Maid July?I would swear one day ago She passed by,I would ...
To A Poet Breaking Silence (Francis Thompson Poems)
Too wearily had we and songBeen left to look and left to long,Yea, song and we to long and look,Since ...
Ultimum (Francis Thompson Poems)
Now in these last spent drops, slow, slower shed,Love dies, Love dies, Love dies--ah, Love is dead!Sad Love in life, ...
Sister Songs-An Offering To Two Sisters – The Proem (Francis Thompson Poems)
Shrewd winds and shrill--were these the speech of May?A ragged, slag-grey sky--invested so,Mary's spoilt nursling! wert thou wont to go?Or ...