Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. V. Browning to Rupert Brooke

Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

The End of It (from New Poems)

SHE did not love to love; but hated him

For making her to love, and so her whim

From passion taught misprision to begin;

And all this sin

Was because love to cast out had no skill

Self, which was regent still.

Her own self-will made void her own self’s will.