Heaven-Haven

Gerard Manley Hopkins(1844–1889)

1864

I have desired to goWhere springs not fail,To fields where flies no sharp and sided hailAnd a few lilies blow.

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

“Heaven-Haven: A nun takes the veil” (1864), via the English Wikisource transcription (Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins).

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