Heaven Poems

Popular Heaven Poems
1914 V: The Soldier
by Rupert Brooke

If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,

......

Continue reading
Coole Park And Ballylee, 1931
by William Butler Yeats

Under my window-ledge the waters race,
Otters below and moor-hens on the top,
Run for a mile undimmed in Heaven's face
Then darkening through 'dark' Raftery's 'cellar' drop,
Run underground, rise in a rocky place
In Coole demesne, and there to finish up
Spread to a lake and drop into a hole.
What's water but the generated soul?

Upon the border of that lake's a wood

......

Continue reading
Night
by William Blake

The sun descending in the west,
The evening star does shine;
The birds are silent in their nest,
And I must seek for mine.
The moon, like a flower,
In heaven's high bower,
With silent delight
Sits and smiles on the night.

Farewell, green fields and happy groves,

......

Continue reading
On Death
by Percy Bysshe Shelley

The pale, the cold, and the moony smile
Which the meteor beam of a starless night
Sheds on a lonely and sea-girt isle,
Ere the dawning of morn's undoubted light,
Is the flame of life so fickle and wan
That flits round our steps till their strength is gone.

O man! hold thee on in courage of soul
Through the stormy shades of thy wordly way,
And the billows of clouds that around thee roll

......

Continue reading
Mariana
by Alfred Lord Tennyson

WITH BLACKEST moss the flower-plots
Were thickly crusted, one and all:
The rusted nails fell from the knots
That held the pear to the gable-wall.
The broken sheds look'd sad and strange:
Unlifted was the clinking latch;
Weeded and worn the ancient thatch
Upon the lonely moated grange.
She only said, "My life is dreary,
He cometh not," she said;

......

Continue reading
Recent Heaven Poems
The Listening Heart
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

I had spent recent years in mourning, since I had lost someone very dear;
As when pallid moon is hidden by clouds, and bright stars will not appear.

My job as a professor consumed me, and I was happy for its distractions,
Like a pastel rainbow that's created, from mist and sunshine interactions.

My loved ones tried to cheer me up, with their caring words and gestures,
In those whirlwind days, fraught with bright sunshine, roses and lectures.

While empty smiles were ofttimes present, sadness trailed like moments,

......

Continue reading
Tatters
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Tatters the clown had brought joy to so many;
But of intense personal joys, he had not any.
Hard luck trailed him, as it sometimes will do,
As dark clouds chase the sun, in skies of blue.

He faced various losses, that made him weep,
Deaths and monetary, by getting in too deep!
Children laughed gaily, to see Tatters coming,
As blooms in silver moonlight, most becoming!


......

Continue reading
Charlotte Angel
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

I was a minister of the gospel, very happily living my life for the Lord,
Preaching the Word every Sunday, in the spirit of affinity and accord.

I always knew that I would preach, for I had been called in my youth,
To perpetually serve the will of God, while forever speaking His truth.

Like the lush gardens of springtime, are all abloom with fresh purpose,
Spreading joy with their presence, in a gold, green ritual that is ageless.

I lived an exceedingly busy life, doing work that was dear to my heart,

......

Continue reading
Esther Ngozi Ogbonna
by Joseph Ogbonna

It was indeed an odyssey of excruciating
pain, reluctantly embarked upon
that led to an abrupt farewell
that got you ferried in splendour
by His majesty's service 'HMS Life Eternal'
by your guardian angels maneuvered
on her maiden voyage.
Congratulations for your newfound bliss and
world of non-existent tears.
You have meritoriously earned the Saviour's

......

Continue reading
What Is It That I See?
by Jeffrey Pipes Guice

As I look across America
What is it that I see?
A once strong and proud republic
That was all about opportunity...

As I look across the land
What is it that I see?
Hungry little children
With their arms stretched out to me...


......

Continue reading
Popular Poetry Topics
Popular Famous Poets about Heaven
  • Emily Dickinson
    Emily Dickinson (89 poems about Heaven)
    10 December 1830 – 15 May 1886 / Amherst / Massachusetts
  • John Keble
    John Keble (83 poems about Heaven)
    25 April 1792 – 29 March 1866 / Fairford, Gloucestershire
  • William Topaz McGonagall
    William Topaz McGonagall (60 poems about Heaven)
    1830 - 1902 / Edinburgh / Scotland
  • William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare (49 poems about Heaven)
    26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616 / Warwickshire
  • Algernon Charl Swinburne
    Algernon Charl Swinburne (49 poems about Heaven)
    5 April 1837 - 10 April 1909 / London
  •  Homer
    Homer (47 poems about Heaven)
    Disputed - c 850 B.C.E. / Disputed
  • William Wordsworth
    William Wordsworth (42 poems about Heaven)
    1770-1850 / Cumberland / England
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (40 poems about Heaven)
    6 March 1806 – 29 June 1861 / Durham / England
  • Thomas Moore
    Thomas Moore (39 poems about Heaven)
    28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852 / Dublin
  • Friedrich Schiller
    Friedrich Schiller (39 poems about Heaven)
    10 November 1759 – 9 May 1805 / Marbach, Württemberg
Popular Poets about Heaven From Members