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).

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

Francis Thompson

St. 5. <br class="br"> The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)

“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.