Preface

Name: Sister Songs; an Offering to Two Sisters - Preface
Author: Francis Thompson

This poem, though new in the sense of being now for the first time printed, was written some four years ago, about the same date as the Hound of Heaven in my former volume.

One image in the Proem was an unconscious plagiarism from the beautiful image in Mr. Patmore’s St. Valentine’s Day:-

"O baby Spring, That flutter’st sudden ’neath the breast of Earth, A month before the birth!"

Finding I could not disengage it without injury to the passage in which it is embedded, I have preferred to leave it, with this acknowledgment to a Poet rich enough to lend to the poor.

FRANCIS THOMPSON, 1895

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Chicago: Francis Thompson, "Preface," Sister Songs; an Offering to Two Sisters, ed. Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915 and trans. Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934 in Sister Songs; an Offering to Two Sisters (Boston: John W. Luce and Company, 1911), Original Sources, accessed April 18, 2025, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=2AHGFSI5YF436R6.

MLA: Thompson, Francis. "Preface." Sister Songs; an Offering to Two Sisters, edited by Macaulay, G. C. (George Campbell), 1852-1915, and translated by Hawthorne, Julian, 1846-1934, in Sister Songs; an Offering to Two Sisters, Boston, John W. Luce and Company, 1911, Original Sources. 18 Apr. 2025. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=2AHGFSI5YF436R6.

Harvard: Thompson, F, 'Preface' in Sister Songs; an Offering to Two Sisters, ed. and trans. . cited in 1911, Sister Songs; an Offering to Two Sisters, John W. Luce and Company, Boston. Original Sources, retrieved 18 April 2025, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=2AHGFSI5YF436R6.