Transcribed from the September 1909 Burns and Oates edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org [Picture: Book cover] POEMS BY FRANCIS THOMPSON * * * * * BURNS AND OATES 28 Orchard Street London W CONTENTS. PAGE Dedication vii LOVE IN DIAN’S LAP I. Before Her Portrait in Youth 3 II. To a Poet Breaking Silence 5 III. Manus Animam Pinxit 8 IV. A Carrier-Song 11 V. Scala Jacobi Portaque Eburnea 15 VI. Gilded Gold 16 VII. Her Portrait 18 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS To the Dead Cardinal of Westminster 29 A Fallen Yew 37 Dream-Tryst 41 A Corymbus for Autumn 42 The Hound of Heaven 48 A Judgment in Heaven 53 POEMS ON CHILDREN Daisy 65 The Making of Viola 68 To My Godchild 72 To Poppy 75 To Monica Thought Dying 79 DEDICATION. TO WILFRID AND ALICE MEYNELL. IF the rose in meek duty May dedicate humbly To her grower the beauty Wherewith she is comely; If the mine to the miner The jewels that pined in it, Earth to diviner The springs he divined in it; To the grapes the wine-pitcher Their juice that was crushed in it, Viol to its witcher The music lay hushed in it; If the lips may pay Gladness In laughters she wakened, And the heart to its sadness Weeping unslakened, If the hid and sealed coffer, Whose having not his is, To the loosers may proffer Their finding—here this is; Their lives if all livers To the Life of all living,— To you, O dear givers! I give your own giving. Love in Dian’s Lap. I. BEFORE HER PORTRAIT IN YOUTH.