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Francis Thompson

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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.


— Francis Thompson


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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


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


— Francis Thompson


#love #nature-writing #summer #love

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


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Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.


— Francis Thompson


#look #me #nurseries

And left the flushed print in a poppy there.


— Francis Thompson


#left #poppy #print

For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.


— Francis Thompson


#other #our #own #pain #perish

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


— Francis Thompson


#how #howl #know #only #sing






About Francis Thompson

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Did you know about Francis Thompson?

Thompson attempted suicide in his nadir of despair but was saved from completing the action through a vision which he believed to be that of a youthful poet Thomas Chatterton who had committed suicide almost a century earlier. She soon disappeared however never to return. This poem is the source of the phrase "with all deliberate speed" used by the Supreme Court in Brown II the remedy phase of the famous decision on school desegregation.

A married couple read his poetry and rescued him publishing his first book Poems in 1893. Francis Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and ascetic.

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