Inspirational Poems
Inspirational poems have played a big part of my life and our book of Family Poems contains many of them. When times have been tough and you wonder how you will make it, Poetry can lift your spirits. I hope these Free Inspirational Poems motivate and inspire you to achieve your dreams. Please feel free to share them with others as well.-Grandma Mary
Carving A Name by Horatio Alger Jr.
I wrote my name upon the sand,
And trusted it would stand for aye;
But, soon, alas! the refluent sea
Had washed my feeble lines away.
Courage And Faith by Jared Barhite
Courage and Faith are of heavenly birth,
Though sent down to our lowly earth
To cheer the heart of man;
They are only strong when the human soul
Yields perfect trust and full control
To heaven's benignant plan.
El Dorado by Edgar Allen Poe
Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.
Imagination by John Freeman
To make a fairer,
A kinder, a more constant world than this;
To make time longer
And love a little stronger,
Invocation To The Muse by Jared Barhite
Didactic muse Calliope,
Expand thy soothing silent wings,
Touch chords of measured harmony
Wherein the soul ecstatic sings,
Israfel by Edgar Allen Poe
In Heaven a spirit doth dwell
"Whose heart-strings are a lute;"
None sing so wildly well
As the angel Israfel,
And the giddy Stars (so legends tell),
Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell
Of his voice, all mute.
Life by Joseph Chant
Our lives seem filled with things of little worth;
A thousand petty cares arise each day
Which bring our soaring thoughts from heaven to earth,
Reminding us that we have feet of clay;
My Castle by Horatio Alger Jr.
I have a beautiful castle,
With towers and battlements fair;
And many a banner, with gay device,
Floats in the outer air.
The Church At Stratford On Avon by Horatio Alger Jr.
One autumn day, when hedges yet were green,
And thick-branched trees diffused a leafy gloom,
Hard by where Avon rolls its silvery tide,
I stood in silent thought by Shakspeare's tomb.
The Lesson by Paul Laurence Dunbar
My cot was down by a cypress grove,
And I sat by my window the whole night long,
And heard well up from the deep dark wood
A mocking-bird's passionate song.
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