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Poetry can be used quite effectively to challenge and inspire, perhaps
better than prose if it is done well. These are some particularly
inspiring poems.
Poetry is the arithmetic of the easiest way and the primrose path, matched up with foam-flanked horses, bloody knuckles, and bones, on the hard ways to the stars. - Carl Sandburg
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The Sower
by Mathilde Blind
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To A Waterfowl
by William Cullen Bryant
God guides the paths of bird and man
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Little Things
by Julia Carney
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Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth
by Arthur Hugh Clough
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Where There's a Will There's a Way
by Eliza Cook
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Success is counted sweetest
by Emily Dickinson
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My Mind To Me A Kingdom Is
by Sir Edmund Dyer
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What Is to Come
by William Ernest Henley
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Invictus
by William Ernest Henley
I am the captain of my soul
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God, give us men!
by Josiah Gilbert Holland
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Lowlands
by William Reed Huntington
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The Victory of Patience
by Helen Hunt Jackson
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If
by Rudyard Kipling
what you can accomplish in life
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Loss and Gain
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
assessing your life
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Brotherhood
by Edwin Markham
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The Seekers
by John Masefield
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Transcience
by Sorajini Naidu
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Mont Brevent
by George Santayana
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Morning Sorrows
by Charles Turner
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The Undiscovered Country
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Which are You?
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
There are two kinds of people in the world, but perhaps not the kinds you were thinking of.
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The Character of a Happy Life
by Sir Henry Wotton
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