The Hound of Heaven
by Francis Thompson
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Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden Leaf Printing on round Spine (extra customization on request like complete leather, Golden Screen printing in Front, Color Leather, Colored book etc.) Reprinted in 2018 with the help of original edition published long back [1922]. This book is printed in black & white, sewing binding for longer life, Printed on high quality Paper, re-sized as per Current standards, professionally processed without changing its contents. As these are old books, we processed each page manually and make them readable but in some cases some pages which are blur or m...
Chapters (24)
- THE HOUND OF HEAVEN
- When she lit her glimmering tapers Round the day's dead sanctities Page 52]
- THE HOUND OF HEAVEN
- WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY STELLA LANGDALE
- NEW YORK DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY 1926
- INTRODUCTION
- Titanic glooms of chasmèd fears Page 45
- Across the margent of the world I fled Page 47
- I said to dawn: Be sudden Page 47
- I knew how the clouds arise, Spumèd of the wild sea-snortings Page 51]
- Naked I wait Thy love's uplifted stroke! ..... smitten me to my knee; I am defenceless utterly Page 55]
- Yea, faileth now even dream The dreamer Page 55]
- The hid battlements of Eternity: Those shaken mists a space unsettle, then Round the half-glimpsed turrets slowly wash again Page 56]
- Whether man's heart or life it be which yields Thee harvest, must Thy harvest fields Be dunged with rotten death? Page 57]
- OF "THE HOUND OF HEAVEN"
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- When she lit her glimmering tapers . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece Titanic glooms of chasmed fears Across the margent of the world I fled I said to dawn: Be sudden I knew how the clouds arise Naked I wait Thy love's uplifted stroke! Yea, faileth now even dream The hid battlements of Eternity Whether man's heart or life it be which yields I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Lest, having Him, I must have naught beside (missing from book) Thunder-driven, They clanged His chariot In her wind-walled palace I shook the pillaring hours And now my heart is as a broken fount That Voice is round me like a bursting sea
- I fled Him, down the labyrinthine ways Of my own mind
- THE HOUND OF HEAVEN
- Thunder-driven, They clanged His chariot 'thwart a heaven Plashy with flying lightnings round the spurn o' their feet
- In her wind-walled palace
- I shook the pillaring hours And pulled my life upon me
- And now my heart is as a broken fount, Wherein tear-drippings stagnate, spilt down ever From the dank thoughts that shiver
- That Voice is round me like a bursting sea
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