Frank Leslie Thomson Wilmot (6 April 1881 – 22 February 1942), who published his work under the pseudonym Furnley Maurice, was a noted Australian poet, best known for To God: From the Warring Nations (1917).
Wilmot began contributing verse to The Tocsin, a Melbourne Labour paper, before he was 20 and also produced his own monthly magazine called Microbe.
Revised and with a slightly altered title "To God: from the Warring Nations" the poem was later reprinted in Eyes of Vigilance, but in the meantime an entirely different piece of work, The Bay and Padie Book: Kiddie Songs, had come out (first ed.
On leaving Cole's Book Arcade he bought its circulating library and carried it on for about three years, also doing some bookselling.
It did not pay well and early in 1932 he applied for the position of manager of the Melbourne University Press and was appointed.
In addition to the works mentioned Wilmot published in 1922, Romance, a collection of essays in prose, which though somewhat slight are excellently written.
He collaborated with Percival Serle and R. H. Croll in the production of An Australasian Anthology, and with Professor Cowling in Australian Essays.
In 1940 appeared Path to Parnassus Anthology for Schools, a charming selection of English and Australian poems with an illuminating introduction.