Francis William Bourdillon

Francis William Bourdillon Poems

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The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
...

LONG ago, on a bright spring day,
I passed a little child at play;
And as I passed, in childish glee
She called to me, “Come and play with me!”
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The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
...

THE LARK above our heads doth know
A heaven we see not here below;
She sees it, and for joy she sings;
Then falls with ineffectual wings.
...

Across the Glory of the glowing skies,
A veil is drawn of shadowed mists that rise
From lavishness from God's late gift. the rain.
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Light falls the rain
On link and laine,
After the burning day;
And the bright scene,
...

HE came to call me back from death
To the bright world above.
I hear him yet with trembling breath
Low calling, “O sweet love!
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What have I given,
Bold sailor on the sea?
In earth or heaven,
That you should die for me?
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Soft benediction of September sun;
Voices of children, laughing as they run;
Green English lawns, bright flowers and butterflies;
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Watchman, watchman, what of the night,
What of the night to tell?
The heavens are dark, and never a light
But the far-off flicker of Hell.
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She turned the page of wounds and death
With trembling fingers. In a breath
The gladness of her life became
Naught but a memory and a name.
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An acorn swung
On an oak-tree bough;
So long it had hung,
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Not here in the populous town,
In the playhouse or mart,
Not here in the ways gray and brown,
Bnt afar on the green-swelling down,
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Hark! 'tis the rush of the horses,
The crash of the galloping gun!
The stars are out of their courses;
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For rain, for rain the parched lands cry,
Reproachful to the cloudless sky.
The hot white fields in light are blinking,
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Who knows the deeps, where the water sleeps
Leagues from the light away?
Who knows the heights, where myriad lights
Fill heaven with endless day?
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White-faced Winter Roses,
O'er the grave I plant you
Where the dead reposes,
That a soul may haunt you,
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Oft had I felt, like pure Endymion,
Such love for the sweet moon, that I had well
Believed her able on earth to love and dwell
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Only to live! There nothing is more sweet.
Only to live! There nothing is more bitter.
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When Death from some fair face
Is stealing life away,
All weep, save she, the grace
That earth shall lose today.
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Francis William Bourdillon Biography

Francis William Bourdillon was a British poet and translator. Life Born in Runcorn, Cheshire, grew up at Woolbeding Rectory, near Midhurst, and deeply loved the area, and later built for himself and his family the house nearby, called 'Buddington'. He was educated at Worcester College, Oxford. He acted as tutor to the sons of Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein. Later he did tutoring for the University of Eastbourne, and lived in Eastbourne,and near Midhurst, Sussex. He is known mostly for his poetry, and in particular the single short poem The Night Has a Thousand Eyes. He in fact had many collections published, from Among The Flowers, And Other Poems (1878) to Gerard and Isabel: a Romance in Form of Cantefable (1921), and including a Chryseis, and Preludes and Romances (1908). In 1896 he published Nephelé, a romantic novel. He translated Aucassin et Nicolette as Aucassin and Nicolet (1887), wrote a scholarly work The Early Editions of the Roman de la Rose (1906), Russia Reborn (1917), and published a number of essays with the Religious Tract Society.)

The Best Poem Of Francis William Bourdillon

Night

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies,
When love is done.

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Rodney Bobb Williams 24 June 2020

I want to know all about the poem drought

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Rose Ellen flint 13 June 2019

What year did Bourdillon w rite the night has a thousand eyes?

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