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Title: New Poems

Author: Francis Thompson

Posting Date: August 26, 2008 [EBook #1471]
Release Date: September, 1998

Language: English

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NEW POEMS,

By Francis Thompson.

Dedication to Coventry Patmore.

Lo, my book thinks to look Time's leaguer down,
Under the banner of your spread renown!
Or if these levies of impuissant rhyme
Fall to the overthrow of assaulting Time,
Yet this one page shall fend oblivious shame,
Armed with your crested and prevailing Name.

Note.--This dedication was written while the dear friend and great
Poet to whom it was addressed yet lived. It is left as he saw it--
the last verses of mine that were ever to pass under his eyes.

F. T.

Contents.

SIGHT AND INSIGHT.

The mistress of vision.
Contemplation.
'By reason of Thy law.'
The dread of height.
Orient ode.
New Year's chimes.
From the night of forebeing.
Any saint.
Assumpta Maria.
The after woman.
Grace of the way.
Retrospect.

A NARROW VESSEL.

A girl's sin--in her eyes.
A girl's sin--in his eyes.
Love declared.
The way of a maid.
Beginning of the end.
Penelope.
The end of it.
Epilogue.

MISCELLANEOUS ODES.

Ode to the setting sun.
A captain of song.
Against Urania.
An anthem of earth.

MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.

'Ex ore infantium.'
A question.
Field-flower.
The cloud's swan-song.
To the sinking sun.
Grief's harmonics.
Memorat memoria.
July fugitive.
To a snow-flake.
Nocturn.
A May burden.
A dead astronomer.
'Chose vue.'
'Whereto art thou come.'
Heaven and hell.
To a child.
Hermes.
House of bondage.
The heart.
A sunset.
Heard on the mountain.

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