| 11 Famous Quotes by Francis Thompson
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“Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its own soul.”
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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.”
Apparel Quotes Source: Gilded Gold (st. 2)
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“She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be.”
Parting Quotes Source: Daisy (st. 12)
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“I was heavy with the even,
When she lit her glimmering tapers
Round the day's dead sanctities.
I laughed in the morning's eyes.”
Evening Quotes Source: The Hound of Heaven (l. 84)
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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.”
Poppies Quotes Source: The Poppy
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“The immortal could we cease to contemplate,
The mortal part suggests its every trait.
God laid His fingers on the ivories
Of her pure members as on smoothed keys,
And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies.”
Mortality Quotes Source: Her Portrait (st. 7)
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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.”
Lilies Quotes Source: Gilded Gold (st. 1)
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“The Summer looks out from her brazen tower,
Through the flashing bars of July.”
July Quotes Source: A Corymbus for Autumn (st. 3)
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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.”
Paradise Quotes Source: Epilogue (st. 2)
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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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“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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Francis Thompson Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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