Hope Poems

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Life
by Charlotte Brontë

LIFE, believe, is not a dream
So dark as sages say;
Oft a little morning rain
Foretells a pleasant day.
Sometimes there are clouds of gloom,
But these are transient all;
If the shower will make the roses bloom,
O why lament its fall ?

Rapidly, merrily,

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Still I Rise
by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may tread me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.


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To The Cuckoo
by William Wordsworth

O BLITHE New-comer! I have heard,
I hear thee and rejoice.
O Cuckoo! Shall I call thee Bird,
Or but a wandering Voice?

While I am lying on the grass
Thy twofold shout I hear,
From hill to hill it seems to pass,
At once far off, and near.


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Carry On
by Robert William Service

It's easy to fight when everything's right,
And you're mad with the thrill and the glory;
It's easy to cheer when victory's near,
And wallow in fields that are gory.
It's a different song when everything's wrong,
When you're feeling infernally mortal;
When it's ten against one, and hope there is none,
Buck up, little soldier, and chortle:

Carry on! Carry on!

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Let America Be America Again
by Langston Hughes

Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.

(America never was America to me.)

Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme

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Erasures
by Nathaniel Phillips

Writing letters of consolation to recount loss
When every breath of failure is just another cross

Dignity gone to die with pride when humanity is its own grave
Seeking to resolve this conundrum, a crisis of faith, I slave

Lost in query of this go between
The flesh is blind as all things seen

Consolations like back handed compliments of comfort for sorrow

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How heavy is hope
by Mario Odekerken

It rests in the chest like a bird too long caged-
wings bruised from flightless years,
still lifting,
still dreaming of sky it has never touched.

Hope is not light.
It is the weight we carry when we
have nothing else,
the stone we clutch in the flood
because sinking feels closer to flying

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Hope only seems fallen
by Amy Michelle Mosier

Hope only seems fallen
At the end of battles;
After the dust settles -
It reappears erelong.

Hope carries a spark -
An internal light -
A fire for life
That eschews the dark.


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A Glance in Despair
by Ann Tony

Away, away, in a far land,
With the sun cast sand,
Stood a girl with a mind full of dreams
In a dress-coloured cream.
She looked far away into the horizon,
And stood there still glancing,
As the orange hues dissolved into the sea,
Like the hopes she had and the promises she made.
She watched keenly as the sea swallowed the sun
With its waves crashing against each other.

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My little butterfly
by Tea Tree

Hope is a dangerous thing
She always changes her form
To me, she’s a little butterfly.

She’ll come hurtling into my soul
A flurry of wings and colour and light
She pulls me out of that spiral
Tells me that I can not give up
Not now
Convinces me that I am a fighter

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  • Robert William Service
    Robert William Service (136 poems about Hope)
    January 16, 1874 / Preston - September 11, 1958
  • Isaac Watts
    Isaac Watts (108 poems about Hope)
    17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748 / Southampton / England
  • William Topaz McGonagall
    William Topaz McGonagall (73 poems about Hope)
    1830 - 1902 / Edinburgh / Scotland
  • John Keble
    John Keble (49 poems about Hope)
    25 April 1792 – 29 March 1866 / Fairford, Gloucestershire
  • Anne Brontë
    Anne Brontë (38 poems about Hope)
    7 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 / Thornton, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
  • Thomas Moore
    Thomas Moore (36 poems about Hope)
    28 May 1779 – 25 February 1852 / Dublin
  • Algernon Charl Swinburne
    Algernon Charl Swinburne (36 poems about Hope)
    5 April 1837 - 10 April 1909 / London
  • Banjo Paterson
    Banjo Paterson (34 poems about Hope)
    17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941 / New South Wales
  • George Gordon Byron
    George Gordon Byron (23 poems about Hope)
    Lord Byron] (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824 / London, England
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 poems about Hope)
    Samuel Coleridge] (1772-1834 / Devon / England
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