Francis Thompson: Heaven

Francis Thompson was British poet. Explore interesting quotes on heaven.

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“Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.”

Francis Thompson

To My Godchild (this line is inscribed on Thompson's gravestone).

“Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of baptism; it is to believe in love, to believe in loveliness, to believe in belief; it is to be so little that the elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child has its fairy godmother in its soul; it is to live in a nutshell and to count yourself the king of infinite space; it is
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a Heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour;
it is to know not as yet that you are under sentence of life, nor petition that it be commuted into death.”

Francis Thompson

Shelley. In the Dublin Review (July 1908).

Love , Life , Death , World

“Upon thy so sore loss
Shall shine the traffic of Jacob’s ladder
Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross.”

Francis Thompson

St. 5.
The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)

Loss

“Short arm needs man to reach to Heaven,
So ready is Heaven to stoop to him.”

Francis Thompson

Grace of the Way http://www.lib.utexas.edu/epoetry/thompson.q3c/thompson.q3c-96.html, st. 6.