Front matter
Reading edition
Selected Poems of Francis Thompson With a Biographical Note by Wilfrid Meynell LONDON
METHUEN AND CO. LTD. BURNS AND OATES LTD.
Essex Street Orchard Street
W.C. W.
The Twenty-fifth Thousand
THE CONTENTS
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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