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My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.

The Hound of Heaven

The fairest things have fleetest end,Their scent survives their close:But the rose's scent is bitter...

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Complete Poetical Works of Francis Thompson

What you theoretically know vividly realize.

All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flow...

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Where is the land of Luthany,Where is the tract of Elenore?I am bound therefore.'Pierce thy heart to...

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Nothing begins and nothing ends That is not paid with moan For we are born in others' pain And p...

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Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.

In all change well looked into the germinal good out-vails the apparent ill.

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Francis Thompson

Poet

Born: 1859-12-16

Died: 1907-11-13

Francis Joseph Thompson (December 18, 1859 – November 13, 1907) was an English poet and Catholic mystic.More