Francis Thompson (Фрэнсис Томпсон)

Lines

 To W.M.

O tree of many branches! One thou hast
Thou barest not, but grafted'st on thee. Now,
Should all men's thunders break on thee, and leave
Thee reft of bough and blossom, that one branch
Shall cling to thee, my Father, Brother, Friend,
Shall cling to thee, until the end of end!

Francis Thompson’s other poems:

  1. Epilogue to the Poet’s Sitter
  2. The Child-Woman
  3. Poet and Anchorite
  4. The Mirage
  5. To a Child Heard Repeating Her Mother’s Verses

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

  • John Keats (Джон Китс) Lines (“UNFELT unheard, unseen”)
  • Thomas Hood (Томас Гуд (Худ)) Lines (“Let Us Make a Leap, My Dear”)
  • Thomas Hardy (Томас Гарди (Харди)) Lines (“Before we part to alien thoughts and aims”)
  • Samuel Johnson (Сэмюэл Джонсон) Lines (“Wheresoe’er I turn my view”) 1777
  • Robert Burns (Роберт Бернс) Lines (“I MURDER hate by field or flood”) 1790
  • Oliver Holmes (Оливер Холмс) Lines (“COME back to your mother, ye children, for shame”)
  • Joseph Drake (Джозеф Дрейк) Lines (“Day gradual fades, in evening gray”)
  • George Morris (Джордж Моррис) Lines (“O Love! the mischief thou hast done!”)
  • John Lockhart (Джон Локкарт) Lines (“When youthful faith hath fled”)




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