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Francis Thompson quotes: O hope, most futile of futilities!Thine iron summons comes again,O inevadible Pain!

O hope, most futile of futilities!
Thine iron summons comes again,
O inevadible Pain!

Francis Thompson quotes: The innocent moon, that nothing does but shine,Moves all the labouring surges of the world.

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

Francis Thompson quotes: 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?

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?

Francis Thompson quotes: Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.

Spring is come home with her world-wandering feet, And all things are made young with your desires.

Francis Thompson quotes: Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

Oh invisible, we view thee, O world intangible, we touch thee, o world unknowable, we know thee.

Francis Thompson quotes: Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.

Deep in my heart subsides the infrequent word, And there dies slowly throbbing like a wounded bird.

Francis Thompson quotes: For we are born in others pain, and perish in our own.

For we are born in others pain, and perish in our own.

Francis Thompson quotes: Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

Agnosticism is the everlasting perhaps.

Francis Thompson quotes: 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.

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.

Francis Thompson quotes: The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.

Francis Thompson quotes: My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.

My freshness is spending its wavering shower in the dust.

Francis Thompson quotes: Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.

Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.

Francis Thompson quotes: In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

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

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

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

Francis Thompson quotes: The fairest things have fleetest end,Their scent survives their close:But the rose's scent is bitternessTo her who loved the rose.

The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To her who loved the rose.

Francis Thompson quotes: Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.

Francis Thompson quotes: Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.

Thou cannot stir a flower Without troubling a star.