Hound of Heaven and Other Poems

Francis Thompson is considered the greatest modern Catholic poet, and the Hound of Heaven his greatest inspiration writing; but readers of all faiths find it a spiritual beauty and lyric quality of universal appeal. This collection also contains a large number of Thompson s other poems verses about children, religious sonnets, and ecclesiastical ballads. Among them is the beautiful lyric, An Arab Love Song. Thompson's poem inspired, among many others, American painter, R. H. Ives Gammell.