Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, WITHOUT A HEAVEN, by MARJORIE LEICHNER


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WITHOUT A HEAVEN, by                    
First Line: The mist has veiled my skyward-reaching oaks
Last Line: For in it, only I remain unchanging.
Subject(s): Heaven; Paradise


The mist has veiled my skyward-reaching oaks;
With grey my heaven-pricking hills it cloaks.
This dull-white melted cloud, like floating ghost,
Has rolled into the valley, blotting out
My cherished fields, my great white host
Of evanescent stars. I look about:

No moonlight spills upon this fog-choked ground;
No far horizons hem my world around
With meeting brown-of-land and blue-of-sky:
There is no star-sown shining sky to see.
A world without a heaven greets my eye,
A fog-bound world, devoid of earth and tree.

These good and constant things which God has made
Have vanished. I who love them am afraid,
Although my love is wide, one day you, too,
May shroud yourself in mist withdrawn, estranging
Yourself from me like this grey-white world untrue;
For in it, only I remain unchanging.





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