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Born in December 18, 1859 / Died in November 13, 1907 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Francis Thompson

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Dedication To Wilfred And Alice Meynell

... Their juice that was crushed in it, ...

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'Chose Vue'

... Down dropped her riband-band, and all her waving hair ...

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To Monica Thought Dying

... Those laughing words when drenched with sobbing so ...

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Inscription

... All thoughts draw toward the awakening heart's sweet kisses, ...

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Unto This Last

... Stung by those wild brown bees, her eyes! ...

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Epilogue

... Death dawned; Heaven lay in prospect wide:- ...

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An Anthem Of Earth

... these weeds, These corporal leavings, thou not cast'st us new, ...

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To Daisies

... O mine, and not the year's your stolen Spring! ...

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A Corymbus For Autumn

... A grape-spurt, a vine-splash, a tossed tress, flown vaunt 'tis! ...

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"Manus Animam Pinxit"

... O be true To your soul, dearest, as my life to you! ...

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A Fallen Yew

... When doom puffed out the stars, we might have said, ...

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Heaven And Hell

...   But ah, how few the God that loves! ...

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The Kingdom of God

...   Yea, in the night, my Soul, my daughter, ...

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The Cloud's Swan-Song

... To hold sweet not too sweet, and bread for bread though sour ...

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Envoy

...   And sweet is sweet, though purchas-ed with sorrow ...