Heaven Haven

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. 

By: Gerard Manley Hopkins

Gerard Manley Hopkins Poems