COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF FRANCIS THOMPSON. - A NOTE BY FRANCIS THOMPSONS LITERARY EXECUTOR IN making this Collection I have been governed by Francis Thompsons express instructions, or guided by a knowledge of his feelings and preferences acquired during an unbroken intimacy of nineteen years. His own list of new inclusions and his own suggested reconsiderations of his formerly published text have been followed in this edition of his Poetical Works. May 1913. W. M. DEDICATION CONTENTS POEMS ON CHILDREN DAISY i THE POPPY 3 To MONICA THOUGHT DYING . . 6 THE MAKING OF VIOLA 9 ToMY GODCHILD 12 To OLIVIA 15 LITTLE JESUS 15 SISTER SONGS 18 LOVE IN DIANS LAP PROEMION 59 BEFORE HER PORTRAIT IN YOUTH.... 64 To A POET BREAKING SILENCE .... 66 MANUS ANIMAM PINXIT 68 A CARRIER SONG 71 SCALA JACOBI PORTAQUE EBURNEA.... 74 GILDED GOLD 75 HER PORTRAIT 77 EPILOGUE TO THE POETS SITTER . . . .82 DOMUS TUA 84 IN HER PATHS 84 AFTER HER GOING 85 BENEATH A PHOTOGRAPH . . . . .86 THE HOUND OF HEAVEN ..... 88 ODE TO THE SETTING SUN 94 CONTENTS AFTER-STRAIN To THE DEAD CARDINAL OF WESTMINSTER . , . 105 A CORYMBUS FOR AUTUMN Ill ECCLESIASTICAL BALLADS THE VETERAN OF HEAVEN n LILIUM REGIS 118 TRANSLATIONS A SUNSET . . . . 120 HEARD ON THE MOUNTAIN 122 AN ECHO OF VICTOR HUGO . . . .126 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS DREAM-TRYST 128 BUONA NOTTE 130 THE PASSION OF MARY 131 LENVOY 132 MESSAGES 132 AT LORDS 133 LOVE AND THE CHILD 134 DAPHNE 134 ABSENCE 136 A FALLEN YEW 138 A JUDGMENT IN HEAVEN 141 THE SERE OF THE LEAF 147 To STARS 152 LINES FOR A DRAWING OF OUR LADY OF THE NIGHT 1 54 ORISON-TRYST 155 WHERETO ART THOU COME . . . .156 SONG OF THE HOURS 157 PASTORAL 164 CONTENTS PAST THINKING OF SOLOMON . . . .166 A DEAD ASTRONOMER 167 CHEATED ELSIE 167 THE FAIR INCONSTANT 170 THREATENED TEARS 171 THE HOUSE OF SORROWS 172 INSENTIENCE 174 ENVOY 175 DEDICATION OF NEW POEMS 176 SIGHT AND INSIGHT THE MISTRESS OF VISION 177 CONTEMPLATION 186 BY REASON OF THY LAW . . . . .189 THE DREAD OF HEIGHT 190 ORIENT ODE 194 NEW YEARS CHIMES 201 FROM THE NIGHT OF FOREBEING . . . .203 ANY SAINT 215 ASSUMPTA MARIA 222 CARMEN GENESIS 226 AD CASTITATEM 230 THE AFTER WOMAN 233 GRACE OF THE WAY 236 RETROSPECT . 238 A NARROW VESSEL A GIRLS SIN 240 LOVE DECLARED 246 THE WAY OF A MAID 247 BEGINNING OF END 248 --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.