Quotes by Francis Thompson - Page 1

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.
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Agnosticism
Everlasting
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Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
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Death
Heaven
Looks
Nursery
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And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
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Print
Poppy
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Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.
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Nature
Flower
Stars
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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
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Atheist
Believe
Christian
Accident
Believes
Himself
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The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
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Devil
Howl
Know How
Sing
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For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
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Born
Pain
Own
Other
Perish
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In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.
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Ill
Veils
Wells
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The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.
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Moon
Moving
Shining
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Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.
Francis Thompson / Poet
Women
Views
World
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Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.
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Home
Feet
Spring
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Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.
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Bird
Heart
Wounded
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Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And perish in our own.
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Born
Ends
Pain
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Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.
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Baby
Earth
Mother
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Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?
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Jesus
Heaven
Shy
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All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
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Power
All Things
Flower
Immortal
Linked
Stars
Things
Canst
Star
Without
Each
Far
Near
Other
Stir
Thou
Troubling
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The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.
Francis Thompson / Poet
Love
Flower
Rose
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The desolation and terror of, for the first time, realizing that the mother can lose you, or you her, and your own abysmal loneliness and helplessness without her.
Francis Thompson / Poet
Family
Loneliness
Mother
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A dog, I will maintain, is a very tolerable judge of beauty, as appears from the fact that any liberally educated dog does, in a general way, prefer a woman to a man.
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Men
Dog
Judging
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There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.
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Men
Labels
Paradise
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But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill.
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Gold
Mold
Serenity
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Babies breathe a lot more rapidly than adults do, and what's more, they're also growing quickly and so they're absorbing lots more into the body and they're more fragile in terms of development and so on.
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Adults
Baby
Development
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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. With burnt mouth red like a lion's it drank The blood of the sun as he slaughtered sank, And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine.
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Fire
Summer
Wine
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So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure.-- From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments. Therefore I say,--Thou'rt fair even so, But better Fair I use to know.
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Essence
Simplicity
Soul
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