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Mood: Optimism & Happiness

My Heart Leaps Up - by William Wordsworth

{ Poem }

The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

The Masque of Anarchy - by Percy Bysshe Shelley

{ Poem }

As I lay asleep in Italy
There came a voice from over the Sea
And with great power it forth led me
To walk in the visions of Poesy.

Before the ice is in the pools - by Emily Dickinson

{ Poem }

Before the fields have finished,
Before the Christmas tree,
Wonder upon wonder
Will arrive to me!

Happiness - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

I’ve made my own Museum of / Happiness, which isn’t built of brick / or stone or wood…

A Birthday - by Edwin Muir

{ Poem }

I never felt so much
/ Since I have felt at all
/ The tingling smell and touch
/ Of dogrose and sweet briar,
/ Nettles against the…

The Release - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

The scaffolding has gone. The sky is there! hard cold high clear and blue.
/ Clanking poles and thudding planks were the…

On Being Eighty - by Helen Cruickshank

{ Poem }

Broad in the beam? More broad in sympathy.
/ Stiff in the joints? More flexible in mind.
/ Deaf on the right? New voices…

Avoiding the gods - by Ian Abbot

{ Poem }

They have come
/ to scald our blood, to call us out
/ from our bright houses to the twisted shadows under trees.
/ Let us…

The Legless Man - by Robert Service

{ Poem }

(The Dark Side)
/
/ My mind goes back to Fumin Wood, and how we stuck it out,
/ Eight days of hunger, thirst and…

At Eighty - by Edwin Morgan

{ Poem }

Push the boat out, compañeros,
push the boat out, whatever the sea.
Who says we cannot guide ourselves
through the boiling reefs, black as they are,
the enemy of us all makes sure of it!

The Letter Always Arrives at its Destination - by Niall Campbell

{ Poem }

Then I wrote often to the sea,
/ to its sunk rope and its salt bed,
/ to the large weed mass lipping the…

Happy Thought - by Robert Louis Stevenson

{ Poem }

The world is so full of a number of things
/ I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings.

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