Quotes by Francis Thompson

"The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To her who loved the rose."
— Francis Thompson
"Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare, and left the flushed print in a poppy there."
— Francis Thompson
"For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own."
— Francis Thompson
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Francis Joseph Thompson (16 December 1859 – 13 November 1907) was an English poet and Catholic mystic. At the behest of his father, a doctor, he entered medical school at the age of 18, but at 26 left...