Category: Poetry

Sister Songs: An Offering to Two Sisters

Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907· 3 chapters· 8,024 words

THIS poem, though new in the sense of being now for the first time printed, was written some four years ago, about the same date as the _Hound of Heaven_ in my former volume.

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1. Chapter 1

THIS poem, though new in the sense of being now for the first time printed, was written some four years ago, about the same date as the _Hound of Heaven_ in my former volume.

2. Chapter 2

Love and love’s beauty only hold their revels In life’s familiar, penetrable levels: What of its ocean-floor? I dwell there evermore. From almost earliest youth I raised the lid...

3. Chapter 3

But on a day whereof I think, One shall dip his hand to drink In that still water of thy soul, And its imaged tremors race Over thy joy-troubled face, As the intervolved reflect...