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    Poems: With a Chapter from Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917 by Benjamin Franklin Fisher
    Poems: With a Chapter from Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917 by Benjamin Franklin Fisher
    Poems: With a Chapter from Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917 by Benjamin Franklin Fisher
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    Poems: With a Chapter from Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917 by Benjamin Franklin Fisher

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    Francis Thompson (1859–1907) was an English mystic and poet. Thompson went to medical school when he was 18, but left home at the age of 26 to pursue a life of writing. He was homeless for three years, becoming an opium addict and supporting himself through whatever means available. A married couple read his poetry and took him into their home 1888, and in 1893 he published his first book, “Poems”. This fantastic collection of poetry will appeal to all lovers of the form and is not to be missed by those who have read and enjoyed other work by Thompson. The poems include: “Before Her Portrait in Youth”, “To a Poet Breaking Silence”, “Manus Animam Pinxit”, “A Carrier-Song”, “Scala Jacobi Portaque Eburnea”, “Gilded Gold”, “Her Portrait”, “Miscellaneous Poems”, “To the Dead Cardinal of Westminster”, “A Fallen Yew”, “Dream-Tryst”, “A Corymbus for Autumn”, etc. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with a chapter from Benjamin Franklin Fisher's “Francis Thompson, Essays” (1917).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead & Co. Books
    Release dateMay 26, 2020
    ISBN9781528789820
    Poems: With a Chapter from Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917 by Benjamin Franklin Fisher

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      Poems - Francis Thompson

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      POEMS

      By

      FRANCIS THOMPSON

      WITH A CHAPTER FROM

      Francis Thompson, Essays, 1917

      BY BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FISHER

      First published in 1893

      This edition published by Read Books Ltd.

      Copyright © 2019 Read Books Ltd.

      This book is copyright and may not be

      reproduced or copied in any way without

      the express permission of the publisher in writing

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

      A catalogue record for this book is available

      from the British Library

      Dedication To

      Wilfrid And Alice Meynell

      If the rose in meek duty

      May dedicate humbly

      To her grower the beauty

      Wherewith she is comely;

      If the mine to the miner

      The jewels that pined in it,

      Earth to diviner

      The springs he divined in it;

      To the grapes the wine-pitcher

      Their juice that was crushed in it,

      Viol to its witcher

      The music lay hushed in it;

      If the lips may pay Gladness

      In laughters she wakened,

      And the heart to its sadness

      Weeping unslakened,

      If the hid and sealed coffer,

      Whose having not his is,

      To the loosers may proffer

      Their finding—here this is;

      Their lives if all livers

      To the Life of all living,—

      To you, O dear givers!

      I give your own giving.

      Contents

      Biographical Sketch of Francis Thompson by Benjamin Franklin Fisher

      LOVE IN DIAN’S LAP

      I BEFORE HER PORTRAIT IN YOUTH

      II TO A POET BREAKING SILENCE

      III MANUS ANIMAM PINXIT

      IV A CARRIER SONG

      V SCALA JACOBI PORTAQUE EBURNEA

      VI GILDED GOLD

      VII HER PORTRAIT

      EPILOGUE TO THE POET’S SITTER

      MISCELLANEOUS POEMS

      TO THE DEAD CARDINAL OF WESTMINSTER

      A FALLEN YEW

      DREAM-TRYST

      A CORYMBUS FOR AUTUMN

      THE HOUND OF HEAVEN

      A JUDGMENT IN HEAVEN[1]

      EPILOGUE

      POEMS ON CHILDREN

      DAISY

      THE MAKING OF VIOLA

      TO MY GODCHILD - FRANCIS M. W. M.

      THE POPPY - TO MONICA

      TO MONICA THOUGHT DYING

      Biographical Sketch

      of Francis Thompson

      by Benjamin Franklin Fisher

      Francis Thompson was born at Preston in Lancashire, England, on the 16th day of December, 1859. His father, Dr. Charles Thompson, was a physician who practiced his profession there and later at Ashton-under-lyne.

      Very early in life he began to read much poetry; his early reading being mostly from Shakespeare, Scott and Coleridge. Later we find him a constant companion of Milton, Shelley and Shakespeare. In 1870 he was sent to Ushaw, a college near Durham. Here he enjoyed a fortunate freedom-the full opportunity of reading the classics. Even during his college life his extreme sensitiveness, like that of Shelley's youth, made him happiest when alone. He studied for the priesthood but in his nineteenth year being found unfitted, he was advised to give up the idea much to the disappointment of his parents.

      Leaving Ushaw he went to Owens College at Manchester to qualify for his father's profession, that of medicine, and although distinguishing himself in Greek and classic work he had no success as a medical student. He says, of this period in his life: I hated my scientific and medical studies and learned them badly. Now (in after life) even that bad and reluctant knowledge has grown priceless to me.

      While at Manchester he would go to the libraries and to the galleries and museums, thus perhaps unconsciously fitting himself for his after work. Failing in his college examinations on more than one occasion and broken down with a nervous illness, like De Quincey he came addicted

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