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Francis Thompson
(1859 - 1907)

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In the winter of 1887, Mr. Wilfrid Meynell, the editor of a minor Catholic literary magazine called Merry England, received a strange parcel. It contained an essay and some poems, with a cover letter: Dear Sir, In enclosing the accompanying article for your inspection, I must ask pardon for t .. .. 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 Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.

"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, who wilt not shelter Me.""
Francis Thompson (1859-1907), British poet. The Hound of Heaven (l. 46-51). . . Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892-1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.

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Francis Thompson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Francis Thompson (December 18, 1859 – November 13, 1907) was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, ...
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Illuminating Lives: Francis Thompson
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 ...
http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~gbrandal/Illum_html/Thompson.html

CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Francis Thompson
Francis Thompson went to London, and there endured three years of ... Did Francis Thompson, unanimously hailed on the morrow of his death as a great poet, ...
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Poets' Corner - Francis Thompson - Selected Works
"Ah, fondest, blindest, weakest,; I am He Whom thou seekest! Thou dravest love from thee, who dravest Me." Francis Thompson ...
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