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The Most Famous Inspirational Poems
Inspirational poems can lift us out of a moment of despair, give us the faith and courage to keep going,
and remind us that we're not alone. Other human beings have weathered storms and come through,
and we can too.
Other inspirational poems are a gift that we can share with others, showing that we understand what
they're going through.
Often inspirational poems help teach us of what's important in life. For example, A. E. Housman
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A._E._Housman)'s Loveliest of Trees celebrates what's ephemeral in life,
reminding us that moments should be savored while they are here by looking at a particularly lovely
moment: cherry trees in full spring bloom.
Loveliest of Trees (A.E. Housman)
Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Is hung with bloom along the bough,
And stands about the woodland ride
Wearing white for Eastertide.
Now, of my threescore years and ten,
Twenty will not come again,
And take from seventy springs a score,
It only leaves me fifty more.
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room,
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
Time is fleeting, Housman reminds us (a favorite theme for poets) and "to look at things in bloom / Fifty
spring are little room." What a lovely reminder to stop and smell the roses!
Other inspirational poems can express the grief we're experiencing, and console us by letting us know
we're not alone. W. H. Auden (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden) lamented in "Stop all the
clocks, cut off the telephone" that "I thought that love would last forever. I was wrong."
An inspirational poem can help us deal with thoughts of immortality. John Donne's famous sonnet,
"Death, Be Not Proud," assures us of life after death as it admonishes death for thinking it can assail the

2. human spirit:
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more. Death, thou shalt die.
Another of Donne's Holy Sonnets, "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God" moves us with the strength
of the passionate religious intensity that fills it:
Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you
As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;
That I may rise and stand o'erthrow me, and bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
William Blake's "The Tiger" expresses a similar intensity as it marvels at creation with its lines:
Tiger, Tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
Inspirational poems allow us to connect with poets writing at their most fevered pitch, their most
sublime sincerity, sometimes, as they show us the moments that have moved and changed them,
whether it be something as simple as the sight of a field of golden daffodils or something as wracking as
the death of a student, taken in the prime of their youth.
Reading inspirational poems may be one way of coping with deep emotion, by trying to match it with
what poets have felt and expressed over the ages. Reading inspirational poems teaches us what other
humans have felt and endured throughout the centuries; inspirational poems tell us that we are not
alone.