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The works of Francis Thompson
Thompson, Francis (1859-1907)
I.
Volume I.
DEDICATION OF POEMS
POEMS ON CHILDREN
DAISY
THE POPPY
TO MONICA THOUGHT DYING
THE MAKING OF VIOLA
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
TO MY GODCHILD Francis M. W. M.
TO OLIVIA
LITTLE JESUS
SISTER SONGS AN OFFERING TO TWO SISTERS MONICA & MADELINE (SYLVIA)
THE PROEM
1.
PART THE FIRST
2.
PART THE SECOND
INSCRIPTION
LOVE IN DIAN'S LAP
PROEMION
I.
I BEFORE HER PORTRAIT IN YOUTH
II.
II TO A POET BREAKING SILENCE
III.
III “MANUS ANIMAM PINXIT”
IV.
IV A CARRIER SONG
V.
V SCALA JACOBI PORTAQUE EBURNEA
VI.
VI GILDED GOLD
VII.
VII HER PORTRAIT
EPILOGUE TO THE POET'S SITTER
VIII.
VIII DOMUS TUA
IX.
IX IN HER PATHS
X.
X AFTER HER GOING
XI.
XI BENEATH A PHOTOGRAPH
THE HOUND OF HEAVEN
ODE TO THE SETTING SUN
PRELUDE
ODE
AFTER-STRAIN
TO THE DEAD CARDINAL OF WESTMINSTER
A CORYMBUS FOR AUTUMN
ECCLESIASTICAL BALLADS
I.
I THE VETERAN OF HEAVEN
II.
II LILIUM REGIS
TRANSLATIONS
A SUNSET
HEARD ON THE MOUNTAIN
AN ECHO OF VICTOR HUGO
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
DREAM-TRYST
ARAB LOVE-SONG
BUONA NOTTE
THE PASSION OF MARY
MESSAGES
AT LORD'S
LOVE AND THE CHILD
DAPHNE
ABSENCE
TO W. M.
A FALLEN YEW
A JUDGEMENT IN HEAVEN
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EPILOGUE TO ‘A JUDGEMENT IN HEAVEN’
THE SERE OF THE LEAF
TO STARS
LINES FOR A DRAWING OF OUR LADY OF THE NIGHT
ORISON-TRYST
‘WHERETO ART THOU COME?’
SONG OF THE HOURS
PASTORAL
PAST THINKING OF SOLOMON
A DEAD ASTRONOMER
CHEATED ELSIE
THE FAIR INCONSTANT
THE HOUSE OF SORROWS
INSENTIENCE
ENVOY
II.
Volume II
DEDICATION OF NEW POEMS (1897)
SIGHT AND INSIGHT
THE MISTRESS OF VISION
CONTEMPLATION
‘BY REASON OF THY LAW’
THE DREAD OF HEIGHT
ORIENT ODE
NEW YEAR'S CHIMES
FROM THE NIGHT OF FOREBEING AN ODE AFTER EASTER
ANY SAINT
ASSUMPTA MARIA
CARMEN GENESIS
AD CASTITATEM
THE AFTER WOMAN
GRACE OF THE WAY
RETROSPECT
A NARROW VESSEL BEING A LITTLE DRAMATIC SEQUENCE ON THE ASPECT OF PRIMITIVE GIRL-NATURE TOWARDS A LOVE BEYOND ITS CAPACITIES
I.
A GIRL'S SIN
II.
A GIRL'S SIN
LOVE DECLARED
THE WAY OF A MAID
BEGINNING OF END
PENELOPE
THE END OF IT
EPILOGUE
ULTIMA
LOVE'S ALMSMAN PLAINETH HIS FARE
A HOLOCAUST
MY LADY THE TYRANNESS
UNTO THIS LAST
ULTIMUM
AN ANTHEM OF EARTH
PROEMION
ANTHEM
MISCELLANEOUS ODES
LAUS AMARA DOLORIS
A CAPTAIN OF SONG
AGAINST URANIA
TO THE ENGLISH MARTYRS
ODE for the DIAMOND JUBILEE OF QUEEN VICTORIA, 1897
The NINETEENTH CENTURY
PEACE ON THE TREATY IN SOUTH AFRICA IN 1902
CECIL RHODES
OF NATURE: LAUD AND PLAINT
SONNETS
AD AMICAM
I.
I
II.
II
III.
III
IV.
IV
V.
V
TO A CHILD
HERMES
HOUSE OF BONDAGE
I.
I
II.
II
THE HEART
I.
I
II.
II
DESIDERIUM INDESIDERATUM
LOVE'S VARLETS
NON PAX-EXPECTATIO
NOT EVEN IN DREAM
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
A HOLLOW WOOD
TO DAISIES
TO THE SINKING SUN
A MAY BURDEN
JULY FUGITIVE
FIELD-FLOWER
TO A SNOWFLAKE
A QUESTION
THE CLOUD'S SWAN-SONG
OF MY FRIEND
TO MONICA: AFTER NINE YEARS
A DOUBLE NEED
GRIEF'S HARMONICS
MEMORAT MEMORIA
NOCTURN
HEAVEN AND HELL
‘CHOSE VUE’
ST MONICA
MARRIAGE IN TWO MOODS
ALL FLESH
THE KINGDOM OF GOD
THE SINGER SAITH OF HIS SONG
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The Father of Heaven.
Child-angels, from your wings
Fall the roseal hoverings,
Child-angels, from your wings,
On the cheeks of Viola.
15
Angels.
Linger, rosy reflex, a
Quenchless stain, on Viola!
The works of Francis Thompson