This etext was prepared by Les Bowler.

NEW POEMS

BY
FRANCIS THOMPSON.

BURNS AND OATES
26 ORCHARD STREET, LONDON, W.
1907

Third English Edition

	PAGE
Dedication	[vii]
SIGHT ANDINSIGHT
The Mistress of Vision	[3]
Contemplation	[14]
‘By Reason of Thy Law’	[18]
The Dread of Height	[21]
Orient Ode	[26]
New Year’s Chimes	[36]
From the Night of Forebeing	[40]
Any Saint	[58]
Assumpta Maria	[67]
The After Woman	[74]
Grace of the Way	[77]
Retrospect	[80]
ANARROW VESSEL
A Girl’s Sin—in her Eyes	[85]
A Girl’s Sin—in his Eyes	[91]
Love Declared	[94]
The Way of a Maid	[96]
Beginning of the End	[98]
Penelope	[100]
The End of it	[102]
Epilogue	[103]
MISCELLANEOUS ODES
Ode to the Setting Sun	[107]
A Captain of Song	[123]
Against Urania	[126]
An Anthem of Earth	[129]
MISCELLANEOUSPOEMS
‘Ex Ore Infantium’	[151]
A Question	[154]
Field-flower	[157]
The Cloud’s Swan-Song	[159]
To the Sinking Sun	[166]
Grief’s Harmonics	[169]
Memorat Memoria	[171]
July Fugitive	[173]
To a Snow-flake	[177]
Nocturn	[179]
A May Burden	[181]
A Dead Astronomer	[183]
‘Chose Vue’	[184]
‘Whereto art thou come’	[185]
Heaven and Hell	[186]
To a Child	[187]
Hermes	[188]
House of Bondage	[189]
The Heart	[191]
A Sunset	[193]
Heard on the Mountain	[197]
ULTIMA
Love’s Almsman Plaineth his Fare	[207]
A Holocaust	[209]
Beneath a Photograph	[211]
After her Going	[212]
My Lady the Tyranness	[214]
Unto this Last	[218]
Ultimum	[221]
Envoy	[224]

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