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Poems of Hope and Resilience Poetry Foundation

WEBHope can foster determination and grit—the ability to bounce back and to remain determined despite failures and setbacks—when we make daily efforts to change and …

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Emily Dickinson Poetry Foundation

WEBDickinson is now known as one of the most important American poets, and her poetry is widely read among people of all ages and interests. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born …

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William Blake Poetry Foundation

WEBPoet, painter, engraver, and visionary William Blake worked to bring about a change both in the social order and in the minds of men. Though in his lifetime his work was largely …

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Maya Angelou Poetry Foundation

WEBAn acclaimed American poet, storyteller, activist, and autobiographer, Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. Angelou had a broad career as a singer, …

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Poems of Anxiety and Uncertainty Poetry Foundation

WEBBy resisting closure and easy answers and sounding out the darkness, these poems remind us that poetry has always been able to cope with uncertainties, ambiguities, and shades …

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Robert Frost Poetry Foundation

WEBRobert Frost was born in San Francisco, but his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1884 following his father’s death. The move was actually a return, for Frost’s …

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Poems of Sickness, Illness, and Recovery Poetry Foundation

WEBWe worry. We get the results, we hear the diagnosis. We worry. We go through treatment. We struggle to find the courage, the strength. We lean on our loved ones. These poems …

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Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman Poetry Foundation

WEBWalt Whitman is America’s world poet—a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare. In Leaves of Grass (1855, 1891-2), he celebrated democracy, nature, …

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Get Well Soon Poems Poetry Foundation

WEBGet Well Soon Poems. Poetry from the Poetry Foundation archive to send to a sick friend. By The Editors. Image by Cora Mueller. Courtesy of Shutterstock. Sometimes poetry is …

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I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman Poetry Foundation

WEBWalt Whitman is America’s world poet—a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare. In Leaves of Grass (1855, 1891-2), he celebrated democracy, nature, …

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Headless Hearts by Rafael Frumkin Poetry Foundation

WEBHeadless Hearts. The double standards of the mad genius myth. By Rafael Frumkin. Illustration by Jon Stich. Robert Lowell ’s place in the literary imagination is that of the …

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning Poetry Foundation

WEBAmong all female poets of the English-speaking world in the 19th century, none was held in higher critical esteem or was more admired for the independence and courage of her …

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Christina Rossetti Poetry Foundation

WEBPoet Christina Rossetti was born in 1830, the youngest child in an extraordinarily gifted family. Her father, the Italian poet and political exile Gabriele Rossetti, immigrated to …

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from Endymion by John Keats Poetry Foundation

WEBEndymion. Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. From our dark spirits. Such the sun, the moon, Pouring unto us from the heaven's brink. They always must be …

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Invictus by William Ernest Henley Poetry Foundation

WEBUnder the bludgeonings of chance. My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears. Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years. …

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D. H. Lawrence Poetry Foundation

WEBEnglish writer D.H. Lawrence’s prolific and diverse output included novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, paintings, translations, and literary criticism. His …

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Tulips by Sylvia Plath Poetry Foundation

WEBBy Sylvia Plath. The tulips are too excitable, it is winter here. Look how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed-in. I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly. As the …

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Song of Myself (1892 version) by Walt Whitman Poetry Foundation

WEBWalt Whitman is America’s world poet—a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare. In Leaves of Grass (1855, 1891-2), he celebrated democracy, nature, …

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Jenny Kiss’d Me by Leigh Hunt Poetry Foundation

WEBBy Leigh Hunt. Jenny kiss’d me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get. Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I’m weary, say I’m sad, Say …

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