Versos English Gerard Manley Hopkins Heaven--Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil

English poem

Heaven--Haven: A Nun Takes The Veil

by (1844–1889)

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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.