Selected Poems of Francis Thompson :: SELECTED POEMS OF FRANCIS THOMPSON

SELECTED POEMS OF FRANCIS THOMPSON

Francis Thompson in 1877

Selected Poems of Francis Thompson
With a Biographical Note by Wilfrid Meynell
LONDON

The Twenty-fifth Thousand

	Page
Frontispiece: Portrait of Francis Thompson	iv
A Note on Francis Thompson	ix
The Dedications	xix,xx

Poems on Children
Daisy	1
The Poppy	3
To Monica Thought Dying	6
The Making of Viola	9
To my Godchild	12
Ex Ore Infantium	14

From Sister Songs
A Child's Kiss	16
Poet and Anchorite	20
The Omen	22
The Mirage	24
The Child-Woman	26
To a Child heard repeating her Mother's Verses	28
A Foretelling of the Child's Husband	31

Love in Dian's Lap
Before her Portrait in Youth	33
To a Poet Breaking Silence	35
A Carrier Song	37
Her Portrait	39
Epilogue to the Poet's Sitter	45
After her Going	47

Miscellaneous Poems
A Fallen Yew	48
The Hound of Heaven	51
To the Dead Cardinal of Westminster	57
A Dead Astronomer	63
A Corymbus for Autumn,	64
From "The Mistress of Vision"	69
The After Woman	72
Lines: To W.M.	74
The Way of a Maid	75
Ode to the Setting Sun,	76
Epilogue to "A Judgement in Heaven"	86
Grace of the Way	87
To a Snowflake	88
Orient Ode	89
From "From the Night of Forebeing"	96
A Counsel of Moderation	101
From "Assumpta Maria"	102
From "An Anthem of Earth"	105
Contemplation	112
Correlated Greatness	114
July Fugitive	115
From "Any Saint"	118
From "The Victorian Ode"	124
St Monica	127
To the Sinking Sun	128
Dream-Tryst	129
Buona Notte	130
Arab Love Song	131
The Kingdom of God	132
Envoy	134

Appreciations of Francis Thompson	135
The Works of Francis Thompson	143

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