The Hound Of Heaven Comments

let me out of here! ! !

I finally found this poem, having done it in sixth form I read it again now and wonder if it was suitable for sixth form. (I was then in a British colonial country, Jamaica, so who knows) . However, in spite of now thinking that it might not have been suitable, I have remembered the title over all these years and that something from that poem became part of my philosophy of life. I'm in my seventies. The teacher must therefore have been very good. No, she was not British; she was Jamaican.

I love this poem and its themes. However the reading posted at the top is not very good at all. It doesn’t follow the syntax and doesn’t know how to read the words with stressed syllables. Should be removed.

I thank you for the poem first of all I love the way he describe the mythfors of the poem

not relevant and my teacher made me read this stupid bull

This is the story of the pursuit of Divine Love. It belongs to no one religion or belief. I believe there is a surrender that happens somewhere along the way and then " of that long pursuit, comes at hand the bruit" . I had this experience. All we see is made of the particles of love, and it's a love unlike any human love we normally know, no matter how powerful.

I have loved this poem for years. It makes me think of the 139th Psalm which I also love - maybe the best of all the Psalms. They remind me of Fulton Sheen's line, None of us was born with a complete heart. God kept a part of each of our hearts until.....we are reunited with him in eternity.

If the poet was talking about Jesus God Almighty, why didn't he mention His Name?

How is it that Thompson mentions a down Titanic when he died in 1907 but the Titanic didn't sink until 1912?

The Hound of Heaven is a poem on profound devotion and burning anguish.The vagabond poet is a psychic traveler in the abstract realm of God, and God realization is his only concern.With frantic poignancy the devotee in the poet seeks the 'deliberate speed' and reduces himself into an withering haggard.

I have found no greater poem in the English language than The Hound of Heaven by Francis Thompson.

Francis Thompson 's greatness is no march for his fame

the first stanza is not right... Adown titanic glooms of chasme d hears it should be 'Adown Titanic glooms of chasmed fears, '... being so disturbed by the mistake i did not continue reading. therefore, theoretically speaking there might be more mistakes. john-paul