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Francis Thompson è stato un poeta inglese.

Dopo aver tentato senza successo la carriera ecclesiastica e quella medica, nel 1885 si recò a Londra, dove fu notevolmente sovvezionato dall'editore Wilfrid Meynell. Nel 1892 si ritirò in convento e conobbe Coventry Patmore, che lo convinse ad intraprendere la strada letteraria. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Dicembre 1859 – 13. Novembre 1907
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“Non dove le roteanti nebulose s'oscurano | O s'eleva la nostra coscienza ottenebrata! – | L'impeto delle ali, se volessimo udirlo, | Urta contro le nostre porte suggellate a cera. || Gli angeli siedono nelle loro antiche dimore; – | Se appena rivolti una pietra, ecco un'ala s'agita! | «Voi siete», sono i vostri volti estranei, | Che perdono l'essenza dai mille lucóri. || Sì, nella notte, Anima mia, mia figlia, | Grida; – e aggráppati al Cielo, lungo i bordi; | Ecco, Cristo cammina sulle acque | Non di Genezaret, ma del Tamigi!”

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“Eri tu schivo, Gesù Bambino, | un giorno, e come me piccino? | E che sentivi a vivere | fuori dei Cieli, e proprio come io vivo? | Pensavi mai le cose di lassù, | dove fossero gli angeli chiedevi?”

Francis Thompson

Origine: Da Gesù Bambino; citato in Aa.Vv., Incontri e scontri col Cristo, a cura di Domenico Porzio, M. Ferro, Milano, 1971, vol. I, p. 189.

Francis Thompson: Frasi in inglese

“I said to Dawn: Be sudden—to Eve: Be soon.”

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Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven

St. 2.
The Hound of Heaven (1893)

“Across the margent of the world I fled,
And troubled the gold gateways of the stars,
Smiting for shelter on their clangèd bars:
Fretted to dulcet jars
And silvern chatter the pale ports o’ the moon.”

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Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven

St. 2.
The Hound of Heaven (1893)

“The angels keep their ancient places;—
Turn but a stone, and start a wing!
‘Tis ye, ‘tis your estrangèd faces,
That miss the many-splendoured thing.”

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St. 4.
The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)

“Nothing begins, and nothing ends,
That is not paid with moan,
For we are born in other's pain,
And perish in our own.”

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Daisy http://www.bartleby.com/103/26.html (1893), st. 15.

“But with unhurrying chase,
And unperturbéd pace,
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy,
They beat—and a Voice beat
More instant than the Feet—
"All things betray thee, who betrayest Me."”

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Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven

St. 1.
The Hound of Heaven (1893)

“Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.”

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To My Godchild (this line is inscribed on Thompson's gravestone).

“I fled Him, down the nights and down the days;
I fled Him, down the arches of the years;
I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind; and in the mist of tears
I hid from Him, and under running laughter.”

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Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven

St. 1.
The Hound of Heaven (1893)

“In the rash lustihead of my young powers,
I shook the pillaring hours
And pulled my life upon me; grimed with smears,
I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap.
My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”

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Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven

St. 4.
The Hound of Heaven (1893)

“O world invisible, we view thee,
O world intangible, we touch thee,
O world unknowable, we know thee,
Inapprehensible, we clutch thee!”

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St. 1.
The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)

“Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its soul; it is to live in a nutshell and to count yourself the king of infinite space; it is
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour;
it is to know not as yet that you are under sentence of life, nor petition that it be commuted into death.”

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Shelley. In the Dublin Review (July 1908).

“Upon thy so sore loss
Shall shine the traffic of Jacob’s ladder
Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross.”

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St. 5.
The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)

“All which I took from thee I did but take,
Not for thy harms,
But just that thou might’st seek it in My arms.”

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Francis Thompson The Hound of Heaven

St. 5.
The Hound of Heaven (1893)

“The hills look over on the South,
And Southward dreams the sea;
And with the sea-breeze hand in hand,
Came innocence and she.”

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Daisy http://www.bartleby.com/103/26.html (1893), st. 2.

“Short arm needs man to reach to Heaven,
So ready is Heaven to stoop to him.”

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Grace of the Way http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/thompson.q3c/thompson.q3c-96.html, st. 6.

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

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Sister Songs http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext99/ssngs10.txt, Pt. II (1908).

“The drift of pinions, would we hearken,
Beats at our own clay-shuttered doors.”

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St. 3.
The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)

“The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To him that loved the rose.”

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Daisy http://www.bartleby.com/103/26.html (1893), st. 10.

“Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.”

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The Poppy http://books.google.com/books?id=qM8VAAAAYAAJ&q="Summer+set+lip+to+earth's+bosom+bare+And+left+the+flushed+print+in+a+poppy+there+Like+a+yawn+of+fire+from+the+grass+it+came+And+the+fanning+wind+puffed+it+to+flapping+flame"&pg=PA6#v=onepage.

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