Heaven-haven

Gerard Manley Hopkins

A nun takes the veil

    I have desired to go
      Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
    And a few lilies blow.

    And I have asked to be
      Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
    And out of the swing of the sea.

Next 10 Poems

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• Gerard Manley Hopkins : Henry Purcell
• Gerard Manley Hopkins : Hope Holds To Christ
• Gerard Manley Hopkins : Hope Holds To Christ The Mind's Own Mirror Out
• Gerard Manley Hopkins : Hurrahing In Harvest
• Gerard Manley Hopkins : I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark
• Gerard Manley Hopkins : I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day
• Gerard Manley Hopkins : In Honour Of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez
• Gerard Manley Hopkins : In The Valley Of The Elwy
• Gerard Manley Hopkins : Inversnaid

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