Francis Thompson
Francis Thompson
Francis Thompsonwas an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but could only find menial work and became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book Poems in 1893. Thompson lived as an unbalanced invalid in Wales and at Storrington, but wrote three books of poetry, with other works and essays, before dying of tuberculosis in 1907...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 December 1859
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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
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The chambers in the house of dreams Are fed with so divine an air, That Time's hoary wings grow young therein, And they who walk there are most fair.
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All things by immortal power, Near and Far Hiddenly To each other linked are, That thou canst not stir a flower Without troubling of a star.
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An atheist is a man who believes himself to be an accident
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I do not believe that Nature has a heart; and I suspect that, like many another beauty, she has been credited with a heart because of her face