Religion
Heaven-Haven
From Poems (1918)
Religion
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.
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Codex Note
A nun takes the veil
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MLA
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Heaven-Haven.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/1/.
Chicago
Hopkins, Gerard Manley. “Heaven-Haven.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins/1/.
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