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Book SynopsisAn illustrated anthology of uplifting poetry
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Hope ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers, Emily Dickinson
Hope, Emanuel Carnevali
I Shall Return, Claude McKay
Everyone Sang, Siegfried Sassoon
Lift Every Voice and Sing, James Weldon Johnson
Ode to the West Wind (stanza 5), Percy Bysshe Shelley
Resilience + Courage Still I Rise, Maya Angelou
Courage, Anne Sexton
Invictus, William Ernest Henley
Lines on Retirement, after Reading
Lear, David Wright
Courage, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Don’t Quit, John Greenleaf Whittier
Joy How to Triumph Like a Girl, Ada Limón
On Joy and Sorrow, from
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
Of Being, Denise Levertov
Nurse’s Song, William Blake
Afternoon on a Hill, Edna St. Vincent Millay
Magdalen Walks, Oscar Wilde
Nature + Escape I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Wordsworth
Something Told the Wild Geese, Rachel Field
High Flight, John Gillespie Magee Jr.
On the Day the World Begins Again, Armand Garnet Ruffo
From a Railway Carriage, Robert Louis Stevenson
Time, Ursula Bethell
Love The Sun Rising, John Donne
Invitation to Love, Paul Laurence Dunbar
For women who are ‘difficult’ to love, Warsan Shire
The Oasis, Naomi Replansky
The Light Gatherer, Carol Ann Duffy
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, William Butler Yeats
Tranquillity Sonnet: A sea of foliage girds our garden round, Toru Dutt
Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood, William Cullen Bryant
The Lost Lagoon, E. Pauline Johnson
A Hymn to the Moon, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Sweet and Low, from
The Princess, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Camomile Tea, Katherine Mansfield
Gratitude Sonnet 39: Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes, William Shakespeare
The Last Days of Summer Before the First Frost, Tim Bowling
Haiku, Issa
Thanks, W.S. Merwin
Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity, John Tobias
Comfort Sorrow Is Not My Name, Ross Gay
A December Day, Sara Teasdale
The Dream Keeper, Langston Hughes
Up-Hill, Christina Rossetti
Late Fragment, Raymond Carver
In Blackwater Woods, Mary Oliver
