Francis Thompson
Selected Poems of Francis Thompson
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664593634
Table of Contents
A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON FRANCIS THOMPSON
Appreciations of Francis Thompson
THE CONTENTS
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 |