Thompson

Famous quotes containing the word thompson:

    “I stand amid the dust o’ the mounded years—
    My mangled youth lies dead beneath the heap,
    My days have crackled and gone up in smoke,
    Have puffed and burst as sun-starts on a stream.”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “Cry,—clinging Heaven by the hems;
    And lo, Christ walking on the water
    Not of Gennesareth, but Thames!”
    —Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

    “As grand
    And griefless as a rich man’s funeral.”
    —Sidney Thompson Dobell (1824–1874)