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Francis Thompson

(1859 - 1907 / Preston / England)

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Francis Thompson was born in 1859 to a respectable Catholic family; his father was a doctor. He was sent to Ushaw College in the hope that he would become a priest, but at the age of eighteen returned home, with a letter from the headmaster: "I have been most reluctantly compelled to concur ... that it is not the holy will of God that he should go on for the priesthood ... I quite agree with you in thinking that it is quite time that he should begin to prepare for some other career. If he can shake off a natural indolence which has always been an obstacle with him, he has ability to succeed in any career." Thompson spent the next six years haphazardly studying to be a doctor, and failed the medical examinations three times, twice in London, once in Glasgow. Somewhere along the way he became addicted to opium. more >>

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I stand amid the dust o' the mounded years—
My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream...

Francis Thompson (1859-1907), British poet. The Hound of Heaven (l. 120-123). . . Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeat...

Still with unhurrying chase,
And unperturbed pace,
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy,
Came on the following Feet,
And a Voice above their beat—
"Naught shelters thee, w...

Francis Thompson (1859-1907), British poet. The Hound of Heaven (l. 46-51). . . Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats,...

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