Hope & Inspiration Poems

Uplifting poems about perseverance, courage, and the human spirit.

217 poems in this category

Poems in Hope & Inspiration

Hope is the Thing with Feathers — by Emily Dickinson (1861)
If — by Rudyard Kipling
Locksley Hall — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Hope" is the thing with feathers — by Emily Dickinson
A Song of Joys — by Walt Whitman (1855)
How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix — by Robert Browning
I Hear America Singing — by Walt Whitman (1860)
Into The Twilight — by William Butler Yeats (1908)
Glow-worm Rock — by William Wordsworth (1800)
He ate and drank the precious words, — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
I many times thought Peace had come — by Emily Dickinson
O Me! O Life! — by Walt Whitman
A Safer Journey — by Robert Frost (1857)
Eldorado — by Edgar Allan Poe
Excelsior — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1902)
Forbearance — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
Hope — by Emily Bronte
A Psalm of Life — by Walt Whitman (1838)
If pain for peace prepares — by Emily Dickinson
Nosegays — by Emily Dickinson (1891)
A Creed — by Edwin Markham
Dreams — by Walt Whitman (1932)
Just Be Glad — by James Whitcomb Riley
A Silent Wish — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
Hope is a strange invention -- — by Emily Dickinson
Hope is a subtle Glutton -- — by Emily Dickinson
Maidenhood — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1902)
A Statist's Song — by Robert Frost (1857)
As Winds That Blow Against A Star — by Joyce Kilmer
Battle Cry — by John G. Neihardt
Be the Best of Whatever You Are — by Douglas Malloch
Floss won't save you from an Abyss — by Emily Dickinson
Four Things — by Henry Van Dyke
Happy The Man — by John Dryden
If I can stop one heart from breaking, — by Emily Dickinson
L’Envoi — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1902)
O Sun of Real Peace. — by Walt Whitman
Oh Future! thou secreted peace — by Emily Dickinson
A Plea for Peace — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
Clear the Way — by Charles Mackay
Forerunners — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
Hope's Whisper — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
It Couldn't Be Done — by Edgar A. Guest
Life — by Charlotte Bronte
Light's Devotion — by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1901)
Borrowing Trouble — by Robert Burns
Consolation — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Hope — by Anne Kingsmill Finch
It Can Be Done — by Douglas Malloch
Brave Life — by Grantland Rice
Columbus — by Joaquin Miller
Could Hope inspect her Basis — by Emily Dickinson
How Did You Die? — by Edmund Vance Cooke
A Fleeting Joy — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
A Happy Heart — by William Butler Yeats (1872)
Apology — by Joyce Kilmer
Blight — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
Courage — by Florence Earle Coates
Faith — by Edward Rowland Sill
Hope — by Emily Dickinson (1891)
Hope — by Anonymous
Hope and Fear — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Inspiration — by Henry David Thoreau
Just Whistle — by Frank L. Stanton
Miscellaneous Sonnets, Part 1, Sonnet 17 — by Arthur Hugh Clough
A Life-Lesson — by James Whitcomb Riley
Fragment: 'Unrisen Splendour of the Brightest Sun' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Genius has seen thee in her passionate dreams — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hope Holds to Christ — by Gerard Manley Hopkins
My Ship — by Sir Edmund Leamy
Can't — by Edgar A. Guest
Cares — by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Cowards — by William Shakespeare
Did Our Best Moment last — by Emily Dickinson
Envoi — by John G. Neihardt
Fighter — by S.E. Kiser
Fragments Supposed to Be Parts of Otho — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Invictus — by William Ernest Henley (1875)
Miranda's Astonishment — by Robert Browning
On a Forenoon of Spring — by William Allingham
'Mighty Eagle' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Hopeful Glance — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
A Psalm of Life — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Can You Sing a Song? — by Joseph Morris
Charity — by George Parsons Lathrop
Days of Cheer — by James W. Foley
Duty — by Ralph Waldo Emerson
He Done His Level Best — by Amy Lowell (1865)
A poem, on the rising glory of America — by Hugh Henry Brackenridge
Address Intended to Be Recited at the Caledonian Meeting — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Angela Morgan — by Angela Morgan
Appreciation — by William Judson Kibby
Friends of Mine — by James W. Foley
Hope — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
How Do You Tackle Your Work? — by null
Labor's New Form — by Robert Frost (1857)
Lines: To a Friend in Answer to a Melancholy Letter. — by Sara Teasdale (1795)
Man or Manikin — by Richard Butler Glaenzer
A Lesson From History — by Joseph Morris
Agriculture's Rise — by Wilfred Owen
Awareness — by Miriam Teichner
Challenge — by Jean Nette
Co-operation — by J. Mason Knox
Essentials — by St. Clair Adams
How Do You Tackle Your Work? — by Edgar A. Guest
KEEP INNOCENCY — by Walter de la Mare (null)
On Another's Sorrow — by William Blake
On Gradients Steep — by Robert Frost (1857)
Once I saw mountains angry — by Stephen Crane
Opportunity — by William Shakespeare
Opportunity — by John James Ingalls
Opportunity — by Berton Braley
Opportunity — by Walter Malone
Passage to India. — by Walt Whitman
Philosophy For Croakers — by Joseph Morris
Pioneers! O Pioneers! — by Walt Whitman
Pity. [MS. E.] — by Sara Teasdale (1795)
Poets to Come — by Walt Whitman
Preciosa's Hope — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Preparedness — by Edwin Markham
Prometheus — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Qua Cursum Ventorum — by Arthur Hugh Clough
Rabbi Ben Ezra — by Robert Browning
Rails of Progress — by Robert Frost (1857)
Read, sweet, how others strove, — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
Rouge Gagne — by Emily Dickinson
Rouge Gagne. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth — by null
Say Not The Struggle Nought Availeth — by Arthur Hugh Clough (1869)
Section 6 — by Walt Whitman
See It Through — by Edgar A. Guest
Sir John Franklin — by G. K. Chesterton (1900)
Somewhat, to hope for, — by Emily Dickinson
Song of the Open Road. — by Walt Whitman
Sonnet on the Author’s Birthday — by Robert Burns
Sonnet to J. M. K. — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
Sonnet XVI: Delusive Hope — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
SONNET_. TO HOPE — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
Speak Gently — by George Washington Langford
St. Martin's Summer — by Robert Louis Stevenson
STANZAS — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
Start Where You Stand — by null
Struggle — by Sidney Lanier
Success — by Emily Dickinson
Success — by Emma Lazarus
Success is counted sweetest — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
Sympathy — by Emily Bronte
Thanksgiving — by Joyce Kilmer
The Answer — by Grantland Rice
The Bars of Fate — by Ellen M.H. Gates
The Book Of Martyrs. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Book Of Martyrs. — by Emily Dickinson
The Call of the Unbeaten — by Grantland Rice
The Call of the Wild — by Robert W. Service (1907)
The Conqueror — by Berton Braley
The Demon Drink — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Discoverer — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
The Economy of Speed — by Robert Frost (1857)
The Engineer's Plan — by Robert Frost (1857)
The Face on the Floor — by Robert W. Service
The Fighting Failure — by Everard Jack Appleton
The Future of the Human Race — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Golden Echo — by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1882)
The Good, Great Man — by Sara Teasdale (1803)
The Happiest Heart — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
The Happy Heart — by Thomas Dekker
The House by the Side of the Road — by Sam Walter Foss
The Iron Horse — by Robert Frost (1857)
The Ladder of St. Augustine — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
The Light of Stars — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Light of the Nautilus — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849)
The Lion Path — by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The Nightingale — by Gerald Griffin
The Power of Steam — by Robert Frost (1857)
The Princess (part 7) — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Song of the Lark — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
The Spirit saw — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Stranger — by John Clare
The Traveler's Tale — by Robert Frost (1857)
The Trumpet — by Edward Thomas
The Voice of the Ancient Bard — by William Blake
The Voice Of The Ancient Bard — by Robert Browning
The way Hope builds his House — by Emily Dickinson
The Welcome Man — by Walt Mason
The Wild Ride — by Louise Imogen Guiney
The Wisdom of Folly — by James Whitcomb Riley
The Wishing Gate — by William Wordsworth (1800)
The Youth Replies — by Ralph Waldo Emerson
There Will Always Be Something To Do — by Edgar A. Guest
There's a code of a man — by Robert W. Service
They May Rail at this Life — by Thomas Moore
Time does go on -- — by Emily Dickinson
To Disappointment. — by Sara Teasdale (1792)
To fight aloud is very brave, — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
To fight aloud is very brave, — by Emily Dickinson
To Hope — by John Keats
To Hope. — by Sidney Lanier
To me is given — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Mrs M. B. on Her Birthday. — by Alexander Pope
To-Morrow — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Travels of the Mind — by Thomas Gray
Unsubdued — by S.E. Kiser
Untitled Poem 2 — by Joseph Morris
Untitled Poem 3 — by Joseph Morris
Untitled Poem 4 — by Joseph Morris
Wanted--A Man — by St. Clair Adams
When First — by Edward Thomas
When Hope but made Tranquillity be felt (fragment) — by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
When I hoped I feared -- — by Emily Dickinson
When I hoped, I recollect — by Emily Dickinson
When night is almost done, — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
Who Bides His Time — by James Whitcomb Riley
Work — by Henry Van Dyke
Work! — by Angela Morgan
Worth While — by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Xiii. Addressed To Haydon. — by Sidney Lanier
Xxi. A Book. — by Emily Dickinson