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Poetry · 1897

New Poems

Francis Thompson

Reading time
about 2 h
Length
24,371 words · 117 pages
Structure
43 sections · 3 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

New Poems, first published in 1897, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Sight and Insight
  3. The Mistress of Vision
  4. Contemplation
  5. ‘By Reason of Thy Law’
  6. The Dread of Height
  7. Orient Ode
  8. New Year’s Chimes
  9. From the Night of Forebeing: An Ode After Easter
  10. Any Saint
  11. Assumpta Maria
  12. The After Woman
  13. Grace of the Way
  14. Retrospect
  15. A Narrow Vessel
  16. Love Declared
  17. The Way of a Maid
  18. Beginning of End
  19. Penelope
  20. The End of It
  21. Epilogue
  22. Prelude
  23. A Captain of Song
  24. Against Urania
  25. An Anthem of Earth
  26. ‘Ex Ore Infantium’
  27. A Question
  28. Field-Flower
  29. The Cloud’s Swan-Song
  30. To the Sinking Sun
  31. Grief’s Harmonics
  32. Memorat Memoria
  33. July Fugitive
  34. To a Snow-Flake
  35. Nocturn
  36. A May Burden
  37. A Dead Astronomer
  38. ‘Chose Vue’
  39. Heaven and Hell
  40. To a Child
  41. Hermes
  42. House of Bondage
  43. The Heart
  44. A Sunset
  45. Heard on the Mountain
  46. Love’s Almsman Plaineth His Fare
  47. A Holocaust
  48. Beneath a Photograph
  49. After Her Going
  50. My Lady the Tyranness
  51. Unto This Last
  52. Ultimum
  53. Envoy

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Francis Thompson

1859–1907 · Victorian

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