Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Francis Thompson
Born: December 16, 1859
Died: November 13, 1907 (aged 47)
Bio: Francis Thompson was an English poet and ascetic. After attending college, he moved to London to become a writer, but could only find menial work and became addicted to opium, and was a street vagrant for years.
Known for:
- The Hound of Heaven (1893)
- Poems of Francis Thompson
- The Works of Francis thompson
- Complete poems of Francis Thompson