Quotes of Francis Thompson - somelinesforyou

“ In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ 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 midst of tears I hid from him, and under running laughter. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ 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 midst of tears I hid from him, and under running laughter. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. ”

- Francis Thompson

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

- Francis Thompson

“ An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ But lilies, stolen from grassy mold, No more curled state unfold, Translated to a vase of gold; In burning throne though they keep still Serenities unthawed and chill. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ Happiness is the shadow of things past, Wich fools still take for that which is to be! ”

- Francis Thompson

“ The Summer looks out from her brazen tower, Through the flashing bars of July. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ So for thy spirit did devise Its Maker seemly garniture, Of its own essence parcel pure. — From grave simplicities a dress, And reticent demureness, And love encinctured with reserve; Which the woven vesture would subserve. For outward robes in their ostents Should show the soul's habiliments… ”

- Francis Thompson

“ All things by immortal power. Near or far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ The immortal could we cease to contemplate, The mortal part suggests its every trait. God laid His fingers on the ivories Of her pure members as on smoothed keys, And there out-breathed her spirit's harmonies. ”

- Francis Thompson

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

- Francis Thompson

“ All things by immortal power. Near or far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers Round the day's dead sanctities. I laughed in the morning's eyes. ”

- Francis Thompson

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

- Francis Thompson

“ An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ Happiness is the shadow of things past, Wich fools still take for that which is to be! ”

- Francis Thompson

“ She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ She went her unremembering way, She went and left in me The pang of all the partings gone, And partings yet to be. ”

- Francis Thompson

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

- Francis Thompson

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

- Francis Thompson

“ What you theoretically know, vividly realize. ”

- Francis Thompson

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

- Francis Thompson

“ Happiness is the shadow of things past, Wich fools still take for that which is to be! ”

- Francis Thompson

“ Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ I was heavy with the even, When she lit her glimmering tapers Round the day's dead sanctities. I laughed in the morning's eyes. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ 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. ”

- Francis Thompson

“ In attempts to improve your character, know what is in your power and what is beyond it. ”

- Francis Thompson
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