“The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To her who loved the rose.”
Quotes by Francis Thompson
“Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there.”
“For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.”
Francis ThompsonFrancis Thompson was an English poet and Catholic mystic whose life was marked by both profound creativity and personal struggle. Initially following his father's wishes, he entered medical school at ...