Heaven Poems

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"Heaven"—is what I cannot reach!
The Apple on the Tree—
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HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
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"Heaven" has different Signs—to me—
Sometimes, I think that Noon
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All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
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I fled Him down the nights and down the days
I fled Him down the arches of the years
I fled Him down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind, and in the midst of tears
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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.
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Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
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Seeing we never found gay fairyland
(Though still we crouched by bluebells moon by moon)
And missed the tide of Lethe; yet are soon
For that new bridge that leaves old Styx half-spanned;
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In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by Incapacity.
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Rintrah roars and shakes his
fires in the burdenM air,
Hungry clouds swag on the deep.
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Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
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My heaven will be a land of memories,

My heaven will be brim-full of loved ones.
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Imagine a heaven of flowers
Imagine a heaven of gold
Imagine a heaven full of birds of paradise
Imagine a heaven of golf courses
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