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 A Corymbus for Autumn,  64  From "The Mistress of Vision"  69  The After Woman  72  Lines: To W.M.  74  The Way of a Maid  75  Ode to the Setting Sun,  76  Epilogue to "A Judgement in Heaven"  86  Grace of the Way  87  To a Snowflake  88  Orient Ode  89  From "From the Night of Forebeing"  96  A Counsel of Moderation 101  From "Assumpta Maria" 102  From "An Anthem of Earth" 105  Contemplation 112  Correlated Greatness 114  July Fugitive 115  From "Any Saint" 118  From "The Victorian Ode" 124  St Monica 127  To the Sinking Sun 128  Dream-Tryst 129  Buona Notte 130  Arab Love Song 131  The Kingdom of God 132  Envoy 134     Appreciations of Francis Thompson 135 The Works of Francis Thompson 143

 

A BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE ON FRANCIS THOMPSON

 

Francis Thompson, a poet of high thinking, "of celestial vision," and of imaginings that found literary images of answering splendour, died in London in the winter of 1907. His life—always a fragile one—doubtless owed its prolongation to "man's unconquerable mind," in him so invincible through all vicissitude that he seemed to add a new significance to Wordsworth's phrase. To his mortal frame was denied the vitality that informs his verse. Howbeit, his verse was himself; he lived every line of it, fulfilling to the last letter his own description of the poet, piteous yet proud:

To this aloof moth of a man science was nearly as absorbing an interest as was the mysticism that some thought had eaten him up; and, to give a light example of his actuality, he who had scarce handled a bat since he left Ushaw College,