Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson

About Francis Thompson

Read best Francis Thompson poems. He was an English poet. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but, in menial work, became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years. A married couple read his poetry and rescued him, publishing his first book Poems in 1893. Thompson lived as an unbalanced invalid in Wales and at Storrington, but wrote three books of poetry, with other works and essays, before dying of tuberculosis in 1907. Here are some of his famous poems.
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