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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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An Arab Love-Song

... Star gathering. Now while the dark about our loves is strewn, ...

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At Lord's

... For the field is full of shades as I near the shadowy coast, ...

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Before Her Portrait In Youth

... A trothed hand to the dead the last trump shall not raise ...

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Daisy

... Was the Daisy-flower that day! Her beauty smoothed earth's furrowed face ...

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Dream tryst

... Her eyes were clear, her eyes were Hope's, ...

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Gilded Gold

... In vests of its self-substance wroughtTo measure of the sculptor's thought - ...

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Go, songs, for ended is our brief, sweet play

... Tell them ye grieve, for your hearts know Today, ...

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In No Strange Land

... Inapprehensible, we clutch thee! Does the fish soar to find the ocean, ...

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New Year's Chimes

... From stellate peak to peak is tossed a voice of wonder, ...

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The Hound of Heaven

... From the dank thoughts that shiver upon the sighful branches of my ...

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The Poppy

... And snatched and snapped it in swift child's whim, ...

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To A Poet Breaking Silence

... In white Cecilia's lap of snows!Thy childhood must have felt the stings ...

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To A Snowflake

... Thou could'st not have thought me! ...

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To Olivia

... White flake of childhood, clinging so ...

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What shall I your true love tell?

... "Tell him love, with speech at strife, ...