Bright poems for dark days: an anthology for hope

Hope. ‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers / by Emily Dickinson

Hope / by Emanuel Carnevali

I Shall Return / by Claude McKay

Everyone Sang / by Siegfried Sassoon

Lift Every Voice and Sing / by James Weldon Johnson

Ode to the West Wind (stanza 5) / by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Resilience + Courage. Still I Rise / by Maya Angelou

Courage / by Anne Sexton

Invictus / by William Ernest Henley

Lines on Retirement / by after Reading Lear / by David Wright

Courage / by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Don’t Quit / by John Greenleaf Whittier

Joy. How to Triumph Like a Girl / by Ada Limón

On Joy and Sorrow / by from The Prophet / by Kahlil Gibran

Of Being / by Denise Levertov

Nurse’s Song / by William Blake

Afternoon on a Hill / by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Magdalen Walks / by Oscar Wilde

Nature + Escape. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud / by William Wordsworth

Something Told the Wild Geese / by Rachel Field

High Flight / by John Gillespie Magee Jr.

On the Day the World Begins Again / by Armand Garnet Ruffo

From a Railway Carriage / by Robert Louis Stevenson

Time / by Ursula Bethell

Love. The Sun Rising / by John Donne

Invitation to Love / by Paul Laurence Dunbar

For women who are ‘difficult’ to love / by Warsan Shire

The Oasis / by Naomi Replansky

The Light Gatherer / by Carol Ann Duffy

Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven / by William Butler Yeats

Tranquillity. Sonnet: A sea of foliage girds our garden round / by Toru Dutt

Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood / by William Cullen Bryant

The Lost Lagoon / by E. Pauline Johnson

A Hymn to the Moon / by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Sweet and Low, from The Princess / by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Camomile Tea / by Katherine Mansfield

Gratitude. Sonnet 39: Because thou hast the power and own’st the grace / by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes / by William Shakespeare

The Last Days of Summer Before the First Frost / by Tim Bowling

Haiku / by Issa

Thanks / by W.S. Merwin

Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickle Received from a Friend Called Felicity / by John Tobias

Comfort. Sorrow Is Not My Name / by Ross Gay

A December Day / by Sara Teasdale

The Dream Keeper / by Langston Hughes

Up-Hill / by Christina Rossetti

Late Fragment / by Raymond Carver

In Blackwater Woods / by Mary Oliver.