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The works of Francis Thompson

Thompson, Francis (1859-1907)

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I.

DEDICATION OF POEMS

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POEMS ON CHILDREN

TO MONICA THOUGHT DYING

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THE MAKING OF VIOLA

TO MY GODCHILD Francis M. W. M.

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SISTER SONGS AN OFFERING TO TWO SISTERS MONICA & MADELINE (SYLVIA)

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2.

PART THE SECOND

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LOVE IN DIAN'S LAP

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.

VII.

VII HER PORTRAIT

EPILOGUE TO THE POET'S SITTER

VIII.

IX.

IX IN HER PATHS

X.

X AFTER HER GOING

XI.

XI BENEATH A PHOTOGRAPH

THE HOUND OF HEAVEN

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ODE TO THE SETTING SUN

TO THE DEAD CARDINAL OF WESTMINSTER

A CORYMBUS FOR AUTUMN

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ECCLESIASTICAL BALLADS

I.

I THE VETERAN OF HEAVEN

II.

II LILIUM REGIS

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HEARD ON THE MOUNTAIN

AN ECHO OF VICTOR HUGO

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

THE PASSION OF MARY

LOVE AND THE CHILD

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A JUDGEMENT IN HEAVEN

EPILOGUE TO ‘A JUDGEMENT IN HEAVEN’

THE SERE OF THE LEAF

LINES FOR A DRAWING OF OUR LADY OF THE NIGHT

‘WHERETO ART THOU COME?’

SONG OF THE HOURS

PAST THINKING OF SOLOMON

A DEAD ASTRONOMER

THE FAIR INCONSTANT

THE HOUSE OF SORROWS

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II.

DEDICATION OF NEW POEMS (1897)

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SIGHT AND INSIGHT

THE MISTRESS OF VISION

‘BY REASON OF THY LAW’

THE DREAD OF HEIGHT

NEW YEAR'S CHIMES

FROM THE NIGHT OF FOREBEING AN ODE AFTER EASTER

THE AFTER WOMAN

GRACE OF THE WAY

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A NARROW VESSEL BEING A LITTLE DRAMATIC SEQUENCE ON THE ASPECT OF PRIMITIVE GIRL-NATURE TOWARDS A LOVE BEYOND ITS CAPACITIES

I.

II.

THE WAY OF A MAID

BEGINNING OF END

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LOVE'S ALMSMAN PLAINETH HIS FARE

MY LADY THE TYRANNESS

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AN ANTHEM OF EARTH

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MISCELLANEOUS ODES

LAUS AMARA DOLORIS

A CAPTAIN OF SONG

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

OF NATURE: LAUD AND PLAINT

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V.

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HOUSE OF BONDAGE

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II.

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II.

DESIDERIUM INDESIDERATUM

NON PAX-EXPECTATIO

NOT EVEN IN DREAM

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MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

TO THE SINKING SUN

THE CLOUD'S SWAN-SONG

TO MONICA: AFTER NINE YEARS

GRIEF'S HARMONICS

MEMORAT MEMORIA

HEAVEN AND HELL

‘CHOSE VUE’

MARRIAGE IN TWO MOODS

THE KINGDOM OF GOD

THE SINGER SAITH OF HIS SONG

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DEDICATION OF NEW POEMS (1897)

To Coventry Patmore

Lo, my book thinks to look Time's leaguer down,
Under the banner of your spread renown!
Or if these levies of impuissant rhyme
Fall to the overthrow of assaulting Time,
Yet this one page shall fend oblivious shame,
Armed with your crested and prevailing Name.

This dedication was written while the dear friend and great Poet to whom it was addressed yet lived. It is left as he saw it—the last verses of mine that were to pass under his eyes.