SELECTED POEMS OF FRANCIS THOMPSON [Illustration: _Francis Thompson in 1877_] Selected Poems _of_ Francis Thompson With a Biographical Note by Wilfrid Meynell LONDON METHUEN AND CO. LTD. BURNS AND OATES LTD. Essex Street Orchard Street W.C. W. The Twenty-fifth Thousand THE CONTENTS Frontispiece: Portrait of FRANCIS THOMPSON A Note on FRANCIS THOMPSON _Page_ ix The Dedications xix, xx POEMS ON CHILDREN Daisy 1 The Poppy 3 To Monica Thought Dying 6 The Making of Viola 9 To my Godchild 12 Ex Ore Infantium 14 From SISTER SONGS A Child's Kiss 16 Poet and Anchorite 20 The Omen 22 The Mirage 24 The Child-Woman 26 To a Child heard repeating her Mother's Verses 28 A Foretelling of the Child's Husband 31 LOVE IN DIAN'S LAP Before her Portrait in Youth 33 To a Poet Breaking Silence 35 A Carrier Song 37 Her Portrait 39 Epilogue to the Poet's Sitter 45 After her Going 47