Francis Thompson citations

Francis Thompson est un poète anglais.

✵ 16. décembre 1859 – 13. novembre 1907
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Francis Thompson: Citations en anglais

“I said to Dawn: Be sudden—to Eve: Be soon.”

Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven

St. 2.
The Hound of Heaven (1893)

“Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.”

To My Godchild (this line is inscribed on Thompson's gravestone).

“Upon thy so sore loss
Shall shine the traffic of Jacob’s ladder
Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross.”

St. 5.
The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)

“Short arm needs man to reach to Heaven,
So ready is Heaven to stoop to him.”

Grace of the Way http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/thompson.q3c/thompson.q3c-96.html, st. 6.

“The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,
Moves all the labouring surges of the world.”

Sister Songs http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/ssngs10.txt, Pt. II (1908).

“The drift of pinions, would we hearken,
Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors.”

St. 3.
The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)

“Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.”

The Poppy http://books.google.com/books?id=qM8VAAAAYAAJ&q="Summer+set+lip+to+earth's+bosom+bare+And+left+the+flushed+print+in+a+poppy+there+Like+a+yawn+of+fire+from+the+grass+it+came+And+the+fanning+wind+puffed+it+to+flapping+flame"&pg=PA6#v=onepage.

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